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Tut tut it looks like rain in Chicago! This pamphlet from the 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair offers 100 ways to predict April showers in your area (and promotes Chicago-based Morton Salt). Is your cat sneezing or your parrot whistling? Get out the umbrella!

See the entire digitized collection here and here.

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