The news, as printed onSunday, October 3, 1926

As printed: GEHRIG PROVIDES PUNCH FOR BOTH OF TALLIES

ContextThe World Series is the best-of-seven championship between the winners of the American and National League pennants; Miller Huggins manages the Yankees, whose outfielder is Babe Ruth, and Rogers Hornsby plays second base for the Cardinals as well as managing them. A "port-sider" or "southpaw" is a left-handed pitcher.

As printed: DEFENDANTS LOSE IN HALL-MILLS CASE AS TRIAL DATE SET

ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall, a New Brunswick rector, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on an abandoned farm in September 1922, and New Jersey authorities reopened the case this summer. In New Jersey the Supreme Court was then a trial court; an "accessory after the fact" is a person charged with helping a criminal escape justice after the crime.

As printed: SEVEN MEET DEATH IN BURNING PLANE

ContextCroydon, south of London, is Britain's airport for Continental traffic, and the French Air Union flew the daily Paris-London passenger service across the Channel. Penshurst is a village in Kent, inland from the coast.

As printed: AIMEE TO SPEND SUNDAY TELLING OF PERSECUTION

ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped; Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial.

As printed: HEAVY DAMAGE IS THREATENED IN MANY TOWNS

ContextThe Verdigris, Elk and Fall are rivers of southeastern Kansas that drain south toward the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. Radio was then new enough that broadcast flood warnings were themselves worth reporting.