London Evening Advertiser
- HURRICANE AGAIN LASHING SOUTHERN FLORIDA
- BISCUIT CO. NAMES HANSEN MANAGER
- Real Snowfall Hits the City
The page's lead dispatch followed a powerful hurricane from Havana toward southern Florida. Early reports told of more than 150 homes demolished in two crowded Havana districts, winds of 98 miles an hour and a rapidly falling barometer, while Washington ordered hurricane warnings and Miami readied its schools to close and emptied its jail. A London police-court item reported that a wounding charge was dropped because the accused's common-law wife could not be found, and that his sentence for attempted suicide was suspended on condition he leave the country. A civic report described T. U. Fairlie's valuation of about $1,000,000 for the London street railway's equipment, a council meeting closed to the press, and Mayor Moore's hope of putting a plebiscite to ratepayers on Dec. 6.
This is a partial reading of the page. The OCR was too garbled to use, so the passages were read from the page images, and clipped tile edges, a damaged bottom margin and obscured captions leave parts of the page unread. The passage read under the biscuit-company headline is a separate police-court item headed 'Woman Is Missing', and the passage under the snowfall headline is a report on the London street railway. As a result, the Hansen appointment story and the snowfall story are not translated. The page's item on Chamberlain and the Imperial Conference is not among the selected passages.
Translation
HURRICANE AGAIN LASHING SOUTHERN FLORIDA
reports received by the Cuban consulate here said that more than 150 homes had been demolished in the thickly populated Vibora and Jesus del Monte residential sections. No word had been received from the interior. Advices received from the Western Union were that the wind had attained a velocity of 98 miles an hour in Havana and that the barometer at 9:30 a.m. was falling rapidly. Weather bureau reports from Washington, describing the disturbance as of "great intensity," said it was moving north or northeast and hurricane warnings were ordered for the southern Florida coast and storm warnings for central Florida.
Take Precaution.
With northeast winds expected to reach hurricane force late this afternoon over extreme South Florida, Miami took all precautions. All schools in the city and country were made ready to close immediately on receipt of the first storm warning, and at noon the city jail was emptied of prisoners that they
BISCUIT CO. NAMES HANSEN MANAGER
WOMAN IS MISSING
Inability of Crown To Produce Her as Witness Causes Dismissal.
Inability of the crown to locate Bella Wohlfield, common-law wife of Aaron Wohlfeld, and the consequent lack of evidence on a charge of assault, causing bodily harm, against Wohlfeld caused Crown Attorney Judd to ask Magistrate Graydon to dismiss the charge in police court this morning when Wohlfeld pleaded not guilty. Accordingly the count was dropped. Sentence was suspended on a charge of attempted suicide, to which he pleaded guilty, on condition that Wohlfeld leave the country immediately. Wohlfeld some weeks ago attacked his wife with a butcher knife in a Dundas street home, whither she had fled after Wohlfeld had brought another woman into his home at Stratford.
Real Snowfall Hits the City
T. U. Fairlie, H. E. P. C. expert, arrived in the city this morning to put the final touches to his report on the London street railway before submitting it to the council at a special meeting tonight. Details of Mr. Fairlie's report, beyond the approximate figure of a valuation of $1,000,000 on the company's present equipment, are being closely guarded, and it is just possible that the council may decide to withhold the full report from publication. In any event, Mayor Moore has asked that tonight's meeting be held without representatives of the press being present to permit the aldermen the more freely to discuss the report.
Mayor Moore states that he has not given up hope yet of having something in shape to go before the people at the municipal elections on Dec. 6 for their approval. He expressed the view this morning that it would be a plebiscite that will be presented to the ratepayers, because, as he pointed out, there are such opposite proposals for the solution of the transportation problem, either by purchase or by extension of the company's franchise.
Must Act Promptly.
To permit of the necessary legal publications for the bylaw or plebiscite before the elections the council must take prompt action on Mr. Fairlie's report and prosecute negotiations with the company within the next few days. Tonight's meeting, therefore, takes on added significance.
Context
How much damage did the hurricane do in Havana?
The damage in Havana turned out to be far greater than the early reports on this page suggested. The paper relayed more than 150 homes demolished in the Vibora and Jesus del Monte districts, a wind of 98 miles an hour reported through Western Union, and no word yet from the interior. Later records show that the hurricane made two landfalls on Cuba as a Category 4 storm on October 20, the very date of this edition. In Havana at least 325 buildings and homes were destroyed and at least 58 people died, many of them struck by collapsing walls or flying debris. Over its whole track the storm was linked to at least 709 deaths, 600 of them in Cuba. When this page went to press, the paper's sources could not yet see the scale of the losses outside the capital.
How did Miami prepare, and what happened in South Florida?
Miami's preparations matched the official warnings that the paper reported. The page said Washington had ordered hurricane warnings for the southern Florida coast, that schools stood ready to close at the first storm warning, and that the city jail was emptied of prisoners at noon. Later accounts confirm that a hurricane warning was hoisted from Punta Gorda to West Palm Beach. They add that the prisoners released from the Miami jail were required to return on their own honor. In the end the storm caused generally minor damage in South Florida, so the city's extensive precautions guarded against a blow that did not fall with full force.
Why did the headline say the hurricane was striking Florida 'again'?
The word 'again' most likely recalled the hurricane that had struck Miami earlier in the same season. September 1926 was the busiest month of that Atlantic season, bringing its fourth through eighth storms, and the seventh, nicknamed the Miami hurricane, was the strongest and most damaging of the year. It caused at least 497 deaths and $125 million in damage, and it helped bring the Florida land boom of the 1920s to an end. A city still recovering from that disaster had every reason to take all precautions when warnings went up again about a month later, as this page reported.
What was the biscuit company behind the Hansen headline?
The biscuit company of the headline was most likely the newly formed Canada Biscuit Company, born of a long rivalry between two London, Ontario, confectioners. Thomas McCormick began making confectionery on a small scale in 1858, competing with Daniel Simmons Perrin, another London confectioner who had started four years earlier. McCormick even named his firm the Dominion Steam Confectionery and Biscuit Works in imitation of Perrin's Forest City Steam Confectionery and Biscuit Works. In 1926 McCormick Manufacturing absorbed several regional firms along with D. S. Perrin and Company, becoming the Canada Biscuit Company. A management appointment reported in October 1926 therefore came in the merger's first year. McCormick's biography does not mention Hansen, so the appointment itself rests on this paper's headline.
Original
HURRICANE AGAIN LASHING SOUTHERN FLORIDA
reports received by the Cuban consulate here said that more than 150 homes had been demolished in the thickly populated Vibora and Jesus del Monte residential sections. No word had been received from the interior. Advices received from the Western Union were that the wind had attained a velocity of 98 miles an hour in Havana and that the barometer at 9: 30 a. m. was falling rapidly. Weather bureau reports from Washington, describing the disturbance as of " great intensity, " said it was moving north or northeast and hurricane warnings were ordered for the southern Florida coast and storm warnings for central Florida. Take Precaution. With northeast winds expected to reach hurricane force late this afternoon over extreme South Florida, Miami took all precautions. All schools in the city and country were made ready to close immediately on receipt of the first storm warning, and at noon the city jail was emptied of prisoners that they
BISCUIT CO. NAMES HANSEN MANAGER
WOMAN IS MISSING Inability of Crown To Produce Her as Witness Causes Dismissal. Inability of the crown to locate Bella Wohlfield, common-law wife of Aaron Wohlfeld, and the consequent lack of evidence on a charge of assault, causing bodily harm, against Wohlfeld caused Crown Attorney Judd to ask Magistrate Graydon to dismiss the charge in police court this morning when Wohlfeld pleaded not guilty. Accordingly the count was dropped. Sentence was suspended on a charge of attempted suicide, to which he pleaded guilty, on condition that Wohlfeld leave the country immediately. Wohlfeld some weeks ago attacked his wife with a butcher knife in a Dundas street home, whither she had fled after Wohlfeld had brought another woman into his home at Stratford.
Real Snowfall Hits the City
T. U. Fairlie, H. E. P. C. expert, arrived in the city this morning to put the final touches to his report on the London street railway before submitting it to the council at a special meeting tonight. Details of Mr. Fairlie's report, beyond the approximate figure of a valuation of $ 1, 000, 000 on the company's present equipment, are being closely guarded, and it is just possible that the council may decide to withhold the full report from publication. In any event, Mayor Moore has asked that tonight's meeting be held without representatives of the press being present to permit the aldermen the more freely to discuss the report. Mayor Moore states that he has not given up hope yet of having something in shape to go before the people at the municipal elections on Dec. 6 for their approval. He expressed the view this morning that it would be a plebiscite that will be presented to the ratepayers, because, as he pointed out, there are such opposite proposals for the solution of the transportation problem, either by purchase or by extension of the company's franchise. Must Act Promptly. To permit of the necessary legal publications for the bylaw or plebiscite before the elections the council must take prompt action on Mr. Fairlie's report and prosecute negotiations with the company within the next few days. Tonight's meeting, therefore, takes on added significance.
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