Weatherday: Hatchet woman

A cool start will bring a bright cold morning, sunny spells throughout. A bit more cloud in the afternoon will clear to another cold night.

Highest temperature 6deg and light breezes from the southwest.

On this day in 1846, American temperance advocate Carry Nation was born. She became infamous for smashing up bar-rooms with a hatchet, paying her fines by lecturing on the evils of alcoholism and selling souvenir hatchets.

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