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Not that cold! Mother Nature just couldn't stop playing tricks yesterday: She gave us a whopper of a storm - and a kooky temperature reading at the corner of Bay and Adelaide Sts
Not that cold! Mother Nature just couldn't stop playing tricks yesterday: She gave us a whopper of a storm - and a kooky temperature reading at the corner of Bay and Adelaide Sts

Not that cold! Mother Nature just couldn't stop playing tricks yesterday: She gave us a whopper of a storm - and a kooky temperature reading at the corner of Bay and Adelaide Sts

Date3/31/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Not that cold! Mother Nature just couldn't stop playing tricks yesterday: She gave us a whopper of a storm - and a kooky temperature reading at the corner of Bay and Adelaide Sts.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0015570F
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