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The summer the Dakotas and Minnesota couldn't stop sweating
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Contributed / July 8, 1936, Fargo Forum via Newspapers.comI've written about those tragedies before.
With air conditioning still very rare in private homes, electric fans were all the rage in the summer of 1936.
In July 1936, fans were usually all they had.
ADVERTISEMENTAmericans found creative ways to stay cool in the summer of 1936, and they didn't forget their pets.
Some of the deaths related to the 1936 heat wave involved drownings or injuries in water as more people tried to escape the heat.