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Read published past issues of Evening Star, with excerpts, translations and context.
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Queen and Party Reach Baltimore After 65-Mile Trip From Washington
The Evening Star of October 20, 1926, followed Queen Marie of Rumania on the third day of her American visit: an Associated Press dispatch described her rain-soaked automobile run from Washington and Annapolis into Baltimore, bareheaded crowds lining the streets, police cordons on Hanover Street and a lavishly decorated 24-room suite waiting at the Belvedere Hotel.
Read this newspaper →WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
The Evening Star's front page of October 19, 1926, led with an Associated Press report from New York on a manifesto signed by J.
Read this newspaper →Queen Is Speeding to Washington on Her Special Train
The Evening Star's front page led with Queen Marie of Rumania's hurried passage through New York.
Read this newspaper →QUEEN MARIE DUE HERE TOMORROW IN TOUR OF AMERICA
The Evening Star's Sunday front page of October 17, 1926, previewed the arrival of Queen Marie of Rumania in Washington the next day at about 6 o'clock, by special train from New York with Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas.
Read this newspaper →KENTUCKY STAGING REAL "HORSE RACE" IN SENATE CONTEST
The Evening Star's front page for October 16, 1926, covered a close Kentucky Senate fight, a labor ruling in Washington and a federal crackdown on mail bandits.
Read this newspaper →Proposed Inquiry by Reed Arouses Indiana Campaign
The Evening Star's front page of October 15, 1926 led with a dispatch from Indianapolis in which G.
Read this newspaper →MAIL BANDITS KILL GUARD, GET $160,000 IN JERSEY HOLD-UP
The Evening Star's front page of October 14, 1926, led with an Associated Press account of a machine-gun holdup of a U.S. mail truck in the center of Elizabeth, N.J., in which driver John Enz was killed, a postal clerk and a motorcycle patrolman were wounded, and a Newark dispatch put the stolen payroll at $160,000.
Read this newspaper →Dawes Condemns Primary System to Legionnaires
The Evening Star's front page of October 12, 1926 led with Vice President Dawes telling the American Legion convention in Philadelphia that direct primaries should be largely abolished in favor of nomination by conventions, arguing that voter apathy let organized minorities of roughly 7 to 12½ per cent of qualified voters pick nominees and officeholders.
Read this newspaper →DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE
The Evening Star's front page of October 11, 1926, carried three stories reaching from a New York courtroom to a Washington street corner.
Read this newspaper →DAUGHERTY JURORS REPORT DEADLOCK; SENT BACK AGAIN
The Sunday Star's front page of October 10, 1926, mixed a federal corruption trial, the World Series and street safety for Washington children.
Read this newspaper →SOVIET NOW READY TO PAY U. S. AND DROP ITS COUNTER CLAIMS
The Evening Star's front page of October 9, 1926, carried three political reports.
Read this newspaper →Deaths of 10,000 Reported in ‘Red’ Siege of Wuchang
The Evening Star of Friday, October 8, 1926, led with Associated Press reports from Peking and Hankow on the Cantonese siege of Wuchang.
Read this newspaper →Cards and Yanks Deadlocked, 0-0, in Fourth Inning
The Evening Star of October 7, 1926, carried a running AP account of the fifth game of the World Series in St.
Read this newspaper →JAILED KLANSMAN BARES SLUSH FUND
This front page from Washington's Evening Star carried three wire and cable stories alongside a running AP account of the fourth World Series game in St.
Read this newspaper →YANKS AND CARDS DEADLOCKED, 0-0, IN THIRD INNING
The Evening Star of October 5, 1926, caught the World Series in progress: a low-legibility bulletin from St.
Read this newspaper →PAYNE PROPOSES RED CROSS CENSURE FLORIDA OFFICIALS
The Evening Star's front page of October 4, 1926 led with a Red Cross clash with Florida's boosters.
Read this newspaper →WET AND DRY ISSUE SHOVING PARTISAN POLITICS TO REAR
The Sunday Evening Star of October 3, 1926, set national politics, an Indiana scandal and baseball side by side.
Read this newspaper →U. S. HELD UNLIKELY TO ACT ON COURT
The Evening Star's front page for October 2, 1926 set Washington's stalled World Court debate beside violence at home and intrigue in Europe.
Read this newspaper →AUTO PLUNGE KILLS COL. A. S. WILLIAMS, ACCUSED BY BUTLER
The Evening Star's front page for October 1, 1926 carried an Associated Press report from San Francisco that Col.
Read this newspaper →Duce and British Secretary Confer
The Evening Star's front page of September 30, 1926, carried two prominent dispatches involving Britain.
Read this newspaper →GOVERNMENT WINS TEAPOT DOME LEASE CASE ON APPEAL
The Evening Star of September 29, 1926 reported on an unfolding lawsuit, rescue operation and diplomatic impasse.
Read this newspaper →APE MAN’S SKULL DISCOVERED; MAY BRIDGE EVOLUTION GAP!
The Evening Star of September 28, 1926 reported the discovery of a complete prehistoric skull in Java, recalling Dubois’s earlier discoveries and the controversy surrounding them.
Read this newspaper →Wave of Banditry Reaches Climax in Wounding of Five
The Evening Star of September 27, 1926, reported two unrelated gun battles in Washington, including a Petworth confrontation after which police claimed to have cleared numerous regional robberies.
Read this newspaper →20 nations adopt slavery protocol; League adjourns
The League closes its assembly with a slavery convention signed by 20 governments and promised signatures from 26 more.
Read this newspaper →Three bodies found in mine disaster; 43 still trapped
Rescuers recovered three bodies from a collapsed mine cage and redirected their efforts toward men trapped on another level.
Read this newspaper →Mal S. Daugherty testifies brother burned records
The trial selection sets out the government’s allegation that officials received part of a commission connected with the return of seized enemy property.
Read this newspaper →132,000 expected at fight tonight; court barriers lifted
The fight report describes judges dismissing competing contractual efforts to stop the Dempsey–Tunney match, clearing its last stated legal obstacle.
Read this newspaper →Relief work rushed; search for bodies continues in the debris
Relief organization and the difficulty of counting casualties dominate the storm report.
Read this newspaper →Death toll now 400 in Miami storm zone; Pensacola hard hit
The page juxtaposes uncertain hurricane reports with a fatal aviation attempt and a dispute over America’s terms for joining the World Court.
Read this newspaper →Relief trains arrive; refugees fill roads; storm hits Pensacola
As communications fail in the hurricane zone, correspondents circulate sharply rising loss estimates while rescuers distinguish recovered bodies from missing residents near Lake Okeechobee.
Read this newspaper →Hurricane kills 75 in Miami, devastating $100,000,000 in property
With ordinary communications cut, the paper builds its account of Miami’s devastation from delayed travelers and makeshift radio messages; the casualty and property figures remain early reports.
Read this newspaper →Briand and Stresemann reach an economic accord
The selected reports show governments negotiating outcomes while a storm disrupts the flow of information.
Read this newspaper →Coolidge believed nearly convinced he must run again
The page presents political expectations and negotiated plans before their outcomes are known.
Read this newspaper →French allies win four Council seats
The Council report distinguishes Poland’s eligibility for reelection from any guarantee of a later seat and records German objections to the election’s regional balance.
Read this newspaper →Weller leads and Means loses as primaries end
The primary-election report distinguishes Maryland’s unfinished Republican count from an uncontested Democratic nomination and explains how convention rules could change the outcome.
Read this newspaper →Merton says he knew his claim was legally weak
The paper reports Merton’s explanation that an oral wartime share transfer weakened his asset claim, while preserving the distinction between testimony and the pending conspiracy charge.
Read this newspaper →14-inch rainfall causes 3 deaths
The Star puts flood danger, diplomacy and a Klan procession before Washington readers.
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