Looking back at the coldest February in Rhinelander history

On Feb. 6, 1936, the following article appeared in the Rhinelander Daily News:"The Ironwood-Antigo train puffed into the North Western station this morning. A Milwaukee traveling man, who was one of two men to venture out of the Oneida Hotel this morning, remarked to the other man: 'There's something for the books. Down in Milwaukee the trains are running from six to eight hours behind schedule, but up here in the frozen north, the train gets in on time.' 'Huh!' snorted the Rhinelander native, 'that train's not on time; that's yesterday's train.'The salesman started to laugh, sucked in a mouthful of 33-below-zero air and froze to death right there on the street." (Subscriber access)

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• By By Kyle Rogers-
• February 25, 2015