London Evening Advertiser
HURRICANE AGAIN LASHING SOUTHERN FLORIDA
The page's lead dispatch followed a powerful hurricane from Havana toward southern Florida.
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London Evening Advertiser
HOUSE IS DISSOLVED
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for 19 October 1926 is dominated by Ontario politics.
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FERGUSON TO NAME DATE THIS EVENING
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for October 18, 1926 opens with a Canadian Press report.
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Guerilla Warfare Breaks Out
This page of the London, Ontario evening paper ran wire news from Britain and the United States.
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Fairlie Sets Even Million as L.S.R. Purchase Price
The London Evening Advertiser of October 15, 1926, led its front page with the city's long-running streetcar question.
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MAYOR AGREES TO STAND FOR RE-ELECTION
This London, Ontario evening paper led its local news with Mayor John M.
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Discipline Trainmen For Crash
The London Evening Advertiser of 13 October 1926 followed up on the fatal Canadian Pacific freight wreck near Kent Bridge on 18 September.
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Father and Son Die as Train Hits Truck
The Advertiser's front page for October 12, 1926, led its local news with a fatal crash at a railway crossing at Crumlin, near London: a C.P.R.
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Water and Cars Take Heavy Toll
This partial reading of the London, Ontario evening paper covers three items.
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London Mourns Passing of Hon. C. S. Hyman
The London Evening Advertiser of 9 October 1926 mourned Charles S.
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GUERILLA WARFARE FEARED IN BRITISH CRISIS
This London, Ontario evening paper led its foreign news with a special cable from Henry Somerville in London: Britain's locked-out miners, facing defeat, had voted against their own leaders' advice to call out the safety men who kept the pits from flooding, and the correspondent warned of guerilla-style violence and expected arrests of extremist leaders.
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Strikers Reject Baldwin's Offer
The London Evening Advertiser of 7 October 1926 led this reading with a cable from London, England: a Miners' Federation delegate conference, having rejected the government's latest offer to end the coal stoppage, voted 594,000 to 194,000 on a South Wales motion to pull safety men out of the pits, which the paper treated as a direct answer to a government ultimatum.
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FEDERAL CONTESTS ARE SLATED FOR NOVEMBER
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for 6 October 1926 sets national and imperial politics beside a local civic campaign.
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Australia May Start Ball Rolling
This London, Ontario evening paper of October 4, 1926 relied heavily on Associated Press cables.
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BRILLIANT SCENES ATTEND CEREMONY AT OLD QUEBEC
This London, Ontario, evening paper of October 2, 1926 carried a Quebec dispatch on the arrival of the new governor-general, Lord Willingdon, and Lady Willingdon.
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Buried for 121 Hours, Workers Emerge Alive
The Evening Advertiser of 30 September 1926 carried wire stories from several places, and this partial reading follows three of them.
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Vast Crowd Witnesses Spectacle
The London Evening Advertiser describes the opening of St.
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Scientists Thrilled By Java Skulls
The September 28, 1926 London Evening Advertiser reported excitement over a supposedly complete prehistoric skull from Java, scientists’ efforts to obtain more information, and a reported prohibition on exporting the specimen.
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Canadians Injured In U. S. Crash
The September 27, 1926 London Evening Advertiser reported on two disasters and a closely watched criminal case.
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Meighen quits office and party leadership
The reviewed banner presents Meighen’s departure from government and party leadership together.
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Liberals take up government reins today
The selected banners announce the Liberals taking up government, instructions to ministers to prepare to resume duties, and a wreck inquest delayed by the engineer’s absence.
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Montreal liquor men face $1,500,000 action
The readable headline selection places a $1,500,000 action involving Montreal liquor men above a claim that 132,000 gather for the Dempsey–Tunney title fight.
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Canadians killed in the Florida hurricane
The banner gives the Florida disaster a Canadian connection through a family notification in Welland.
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Fonck’s plane crashes on takeoff; two die. Nonstop aircraft burns. Two pilots escape at Westbury. New York to Paris. Broken wheel causes loss of control.
The large banner announces a fatal takeoff accident.
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Florida hurricane deaths may total 1,500
Florida hurricane estimates and relief dominate the page.
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Freight trains crash head-on
A freight collision in dense fog kills three London railway workers and injures two; the paper says the cause awaits investigation.
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Son saved as weapon strikes case
A dramatic Tokyo embassy attack leads the page, but its body leaves both motive and identity unresolved.
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Choosing the ministry is the next step
Post-election cabinet speculation and a possible local election protest share the page with children’s day at the Western Fair.
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Place seen for Progressives in next ministry
The day after the election, attention turns from voting to forming a government: possible Progressive ministers, Meighen’s reported letter and the timing of resignation.
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Early indications point to a large federal-election vote
On federal election day the paper expects heavy voting, but its evidence is still early polling and campaign enthusiasm.
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One dead, 3 dying after eating toadstools
London’s front page leads with a fatal poisoning affecting two households, reporting six people affected at the stated afternoon update.
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