This morning, one hundred years agoWednesday, September 22, 1926
4 stories from the day's papers, exactly as they were printed. Every clipping is the original page, linked to its scan at the Library of Congress.
The Florida hurricane · day 4
As printed: HURRICANE TOLL IS PROBABLY 400
ContextA hurricane tore across the coast from West Palm Beach to Miami early Saturday, September 18, and a second blow struck Pensacola on Monday. Miami is a boomtown that has quadrupled in size this decade, and rescue crews are still counting the dead as bodies wash up from Biscayne Bay.
Unmistakably the hurricane story, with the full headline stack and a self-contained dispatch — toll, injured, damage, city-by-city deaths, martial law lifted — in one cleanly printed column.
Dempsey v. Tunney · the fight is tomorrow night
As printed: LEGAL ATTACKS CONTINUE ON EVE OF TITLE BATTLE
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight title since 1919 and has not defended it in three years; Gene Tunney, an ex-Marine, meets him at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Stadium. A Chicago promoter claiming a prior contract on Dempsey is in court this afternoon trying to stop the bout.
The crispest scan and the most complete telling of the AP dispatch, from the Philadelphia dateline through the injunction hearing and Governor Pinchot's ringside plans.
The McPherson case · evidence seized
As printed: MANY CALLED AS WITNESSES IN AIMEE CASE
ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the famous radio evangelist of Angelus Temple, vanished from a Los Angeles beach in May and reappeared five weeks later saying she had been kidnapped. She and six others now face criminal conspiracy charges, and prosecutors are hunting her former radio operator, Kenneth Ormiston.
The only clipping that is genuinely the McPherson story with its headline intact and clean, sharp type on the seized evidence and the hunt for Ormiston.
At the fair · judging the freckles
As printed: State Freckles Contest Opens In California
ContextA California fair is holding a statewide freckle contest, open to any boy under fifteen with at least one freckle, to be judged by a juvenile film star. It was announced before the summer vacation, which gave the entrants time to prepare.
