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As printed: 30 DEAD, 1,200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI
ContextA hurricane crossed Cuba and moved into the Gulf of Mexico; southern Florida had been wrecked by a separate hurricane a month earlier, in September. Gerardo Machado is president of Cuba, and the battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898, the event that touched off the Spanish-American War.
As printed: STORMY CAREER OF EUGENE DEBS ENDS IN DEATH
ContextEugene V. Debs helped found the American Railway Union and the Socialist Party, led the Pullman strike of 1894, and ran five times for president, the last time in 1920 from a federal prison cell, where he was serving a sentence under the Espionage Act for an antiwar speech; President Harding released him in 1921. Nephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidneys.
ContextThe Rev. Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of a New Brunswick, N. J., church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on a lane outside the city in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and a grand jury returned murder indictments. An accessory is someone who helps in a crime without committing it, and a writ of habeas corpus is a court order requiring that a prisoner be produced and his detention justified.
As printed: FRANK WRIGHT, MME MILANHOFF ARE ARRESTED
ContextFrank Lloyd Wright is an American architect known for his Prairie houses and for Taliesin, his home in Spring Green, Wis. Adultery was then a crime in Wisconsin, and an alienation of affections suit allowed a spouse to sue a third person blamed for breaking up a marriage.
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, touring America with her son Prince Nicholas and her daughter Princess Ileana. The Sesqui is the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia, marking 150 years since the Declaration of Independence; Gen. John J. Pershing commanded the American forces in France during the World War.
