4 stories, chosen from 69 newspapers of the day and shown exactly as they were printed. Every clipping is the original page, linked to its scan at the Library of Congress.
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As printed: Belated Reports Indicate Loss to Property Will Run Up to $100,000,000.
ContextA hurricane crossed Cuba Wednesday morning; southern Florida had been wrecked by a separate hurricane a month earlier, in September. A "central" is a sugar mill with the cane estate around it, and Batabanó and Güines are towns on the coast and inland south of Havana.
ContextSan Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake and fire in April 1906, the disaster this dispatch measures the morning's shocks against. Telephone calls then were generally put through by an operator who made the connection by hand at a switchboard.
As printed: Gunmen Shake Hands and Promise to Be Good Boys
ContextProhibition has outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor since 1920, leaving the beer trade to Chicago's gangs, who have been fighting since the killing of North Side leader Dion O'Banion in 1924. Al Capone operates out of Cicero, the suburb just west of the city; the Loop is downtown Chicago.
As printed: GAME WARDENS RAID BANQUET AT CHURCH; CONFISCATE FOWLS
ContextAlgona is a town in northern Iowa. Ring-necked pheasants were stocked game birds protected by state law, and Iowa forbade their sale, which is why the birds' origin mattered.
