The Montgomery Advertiser
QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA GUEST OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
The Advertiser's front page of October 20, 1926, gave prominent display to Queen Marie of Romania's formal welcome by President and Mrs.
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CHEERING THOUSANDS WELCOME QUEEN MARIE ALONG ROUTE FROM LEVIATHAN TO RUMANIAN LEGATION AT CAPITAL
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 19, 1926, led with an Associated Press account of Queen Marie of Rumania's first day in America: her arrival by special train in Washington, the Marines, army bands and cavalry escort at Union Station, her delight at the lighted Capitol dome, and the surprise that President Coolidge put off receiving her until the next day 'for personal reasons.'
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HALF MILLION FIRE SWEEPS DOTHAN SUNDAY
The Montgomery Advertiser's Monday front page led with two Sunday fires in Dothan, in Alabama's Wiregrass.
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Norris Launches Assault on Vare in Pennsylvania Fight
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for Sunday, October 17, 1926, led with three wire stories.
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Accurate Canvass of Cotton Industry Is Relief Proposal
The Advertiser's front page led with an AP report from Memphis: the executive committee of the South-wide cotton relief movement planned the first systematic canvass of every cotton grower, organized down to county, beat and precinct, to collect growers' pledges on their honor to cut acreage.
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LEGION REFUSES TO RENEW ACTION ON WORLD COURT
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 15, 1926 led with three Associated Press reports on conventions and federal policy.
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KLAN DRAGON FAILS TO EXPOSE PLOT IN COURT TESTIMONY
This Montgomery Advertiser front page carried three AP and local stories.
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GANGLAND IS SILENT AS OFFICERS PROBE MONDAY OUTBREAK
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 13, 1926, led with an AP dispatch from Chicago: after machine-gun fire from a window opposite Holy Name Cathedral killed "Hymie" Weiss and Paddy Murray and wounded lawyer W.
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City voters ratify school bond issue by large majority
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 12, 1926 led with a local vote.
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ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page led with the Associated Press account of the deciding seventh game of the 1926 World Series.
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Armistice Asked to Allow Civilian Evacuation Move
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 10, 1926 carried three front-page stories on China, Alabama farms and organized labor.
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FEDERAL JURY GETS DAUGHERTY-MILLER CASE LATE FRIDAY
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for Saturday, October 9, 1926, led with the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial in New York, which went to the jury late Friday.
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RECORDS BURNED TO PROTECT CAMPAIGN FUND JURY IS TOLD
The front page of October 8, 1926, led with closing arguments in the New York conspiracy trial of former Attorney General Harry M.
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Babe Ruth Leads Yanks to Victory in Fourth Scrap
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 7, 1926 led with Alan J.
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JUDGE REYNOLDS HELD BLAMELESS BY SUPREME COURT
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 6, 1926 had a state court story, a sports story and a disaster story.
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BRANDON REQUESTS SOUTH'S GOVERNORS TO MEET IN CAPITAL
The Montgomery Advertiser of 5 October 1926 led with Alabama Governor Brandon's telegram inviting the cotton-state governors to Montgomery to meet alongside the U.S.
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ORGANIZED LABOR PLANNING TO ASK FOR FIVE-DAY WEEK
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 4, 1926 carried three Associated Press dispatches.
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BANKERS URGED TO ENCOURAGE COTTON HOLDING PROGRAM
On October 3, 1926, the Montgomery Advertiser carried three Associated Press dispatches.
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MONTGOMERY ASKS SOUTHERN COTTON CONFERENCE MEET
The Advertiser's front page of October 2, 1926 carried a home-grown effort to answer the cotton slump.
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BARTEL’S CABINET RESIGNS WHEN DIET CUTS CREDIT ITEM
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 1, 1926, carried three reports of crisis.
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TEXT BOOK PRICE PROBE LAUNCHED BY SCHOOL HEADS
This front page led with a dispute over schoolbook prices at home: Alabama's state department of education, under Superintendent John W.
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Teapot Dome Lease Case Is Reversed by Appeals Court
The Montgomery Advertiser of September 29, 1926, reports a sweeping reversal in the Teapot Dome litigation, ordering cancellation of Mammoth Oil’s lease, an injunction and an accounting.
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Wisconsin Voters to Express Wishes on Dry Law Change
The Montgomery Advertiser of September 28, 1926 reported three unresolved stories.
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Church Services Feature Sabbath Program in Miami
The Montgomery Advertiser of September 27, 1926, followed communities confronting disaster and cold.
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Florida Repairing Havoc Wrought by Battering Storm
Florida’s recovery brings reopening shops and home repairs, while searches continue for hundreds missing after the hurricane.
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Lieutenant Edwin Johnson dies in flying accident
A fatal flight gives Florida’s relief effort a direct Montgomery connection: the paper reports that a local military pilot and a chamber-of-commerce passenger died while the passenger was returning from relief business.
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Storm death list cut on recheck; loss $165,000,000
The Florida lead revises the known death count after another survey while marking the severity of injuries and property damage as estimates.
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Cotton damage in latest reports
The Alabama cotton report separates crops beaten into mud from damage to seed and the staining that lowers lint grades.
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Entire wharf front of city destroyed; many vessels hit
Pensacola’s damage report arrives through a briefly restored telephone connection and gives an estimate rather than a completed survey.
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Official list puts known dead at four hundred
Disaster reporting links Florida’s material needs to Montgomery’s own storm experience and the interruption of a relief flight.
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Mrs. R. D. Crawley dies in the storm
The hurricane reaches Montgomery through family telegrams, reports of interrupted essential services in Miami, and a proposed military flight to assess the needs of Alabamians in Florida.
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City docks obliterated; 2,000 buildings ruined
Miami’s losses arrive in Montgomery as fragments relayed through Mobile and a ship linked to Hialeah.
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Football opens at Cramton Bowl
Montgomery anticipates a local football opener as its storm dispatch warns of a potentially direct blow to Florida.
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Columbus wins the Southeastern pennant
The newspaper celebrates Columbus’s pennant victory while reporting an arrest order in the McPherson investigation and an airmail emergency.
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Plans released for a million-dollar hotel
The hotel’s promoters announce completed plans while leaving the construction date open and financing still in progress.
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President says Simmons’s proposed $560,000,000 revenue cut is unwarranted at present
Coolidge’s objection to immediate tax cuts rests on the narrow budget margin and debt repayment, while Montgomery’s commission uses street closure and parking rules to address school and commercial needs.
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Death list mounts
The Advertiser describes storm-driven rivers disrupting transport and devastating rural Kansas, with at least five deaths and damage still being estimated.
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Floodwaters take two lives as Kansas is swept
The Advertiser's Kansas dispatch describes flooded streets, boat rescues and people escaping to higher ground, with at least two deaths and damage estimated above a million dollars.
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