Porto Rico Devastated by Terrific Hurricane Winds
San Juan Porto Rico reports describe widespread devastation from Thursday's hurricane. Hundreds of thousands homeless, towns in ruins including Las Piedras and Yabuena, no trains or telegraph, debris on roads, and relief efforts delayed. Estimated damage over 100 million dollars with at least 200 dead. other reports list dozens more dead and many injured.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Las Piedras
Yabuena
United Press
Arecibo
San Sebastian
Cayey
United States
Henry
Marine Headquarters
Bayamon
Baramon
Fajardo
U S Army transport to discharge cargo of fog at San Juan tomorrow
Hundreds of thousands homeless and hungry in Puerto Rico, Governor Towner reports dire need for aid. President Coolidge authorized Army transport St Mihiel to dock at San Juan tomorrow with 550 tons of foodstuffs. Reports say half of homes destroyed, 700,000 homeless, crops devastated, Red Cross underfunded, call for immediate nationwide relief efforts.
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U. S. Army
San Juan
Coolidge
Porto Rico
Red Cross
Washington
Towner
War Department
Comoted
St- Mihiel
New York
Panama
West Indies
American Red Cross
Continental
United States
White
Amherst to vote on sewer bond issue
Amherst Village voters will go to the polls on November 6 to decide a $15,000 bond issue for constructing a sanitary sewer in the northeast corner of the village. The petition to place the question on the ballot was filed with the County Board of Elections by the Amherst village council. The sewer plan outlines a line from Tenney Avenue and Spring Street, along Tenney to Forest Street, up Forest to Cleveland Avenue, then north to Washington Avenue and toward Beaver Creek with a branch from Washington Avenue to the eastern corporation line.
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Amherst Village
County Board of Elections
Ambherst
Tenney Avenue
Spring Street
Tenner Avenue
Forest Street
Cleveland Avenue
Washington Avenue
Corporation
Main Street
Beaver Creek
Evangelical Day Draws 1000 at Lincoln Park Lincoln Park
Amherst reports the second annual Evangelical Day at Lincoln Park with over 1000 attendees from Lorain county churches. Five congregations participated. Amherst beat Lorain 19 to 11 in a Sunday baseball game. Vespers and inspiring talks featured Rev. Bourquin and Rev. Meffen as organizers urge larger 1929 gathering. A union Mission Festival is planned for Oct. 14 at St Peter's with three services and visiting missionaries.
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Amherst
Lorain County
Lincoln Park
Penelfid
Paul Bourquin
Grove
A. C. Ernst. Amherst
United Choirs of the Churches
Theodore Merten
Glee Club
St. John’s
Lorain
Theodore Meffen
St. Peter's Evangelical Church
Honduras
Northeast Annual Conference Opens for Methodists in Lorain
Methodists from across the region gather in Lorain for the Northeast Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Theodore S. Henderson of Cincinnati presides with speakers including Mrs. Mabel Walker United States attorney general and noted dry worker Dr. Ernest Cherrington Ohio Anti Saloon League head Prof. Harry Ward and Yale Divinity School homiletics chair Halford Lucecock along with Reinhold Niebuhr among others. Page continues on Page 3.
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Lorain
Methodist Episcopal Church
Theodore S. Henderson
Cincinnati
Mabel Walker
United States
Ernest Cherrington
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
Harry Ward
The
Union Theological Seminary
Methodist Social Union
Halford Lucecock
Yale Divinity School
Reinhold Niebuhr
Lorain County Farms Desperate For Rain as Drought Spreads
Lorain county farmers report widespread crop damage from a protracted drought. Peaches and apples ripening prematurely, cucumbers nearly lost, and fall crops at risk. Water shortages bite farms, with cisterns and trucked water common as rivers thin. County officials warn conditions could worsen without timely rain.
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Lorain County
Chronicle-Telegram
Drouth
Lake Erie
Lorain
Elyria
Oberlin
Grafton
Wellington
Oberlin College
Ohio
C. E. Rowland
Rowland
Democrats Hold Rally in Northern Ohio with Senator Speech
Senator A G Stanley of Kentucky led a Democratic mass meeting in Vermilion on the Lake, denouncing Hoover and the Republicans for lacking a definite program while praising Governor Smith. Four thousand attendees from Cuya hoga and Lorain counties heard a slate of speakers, including Graham Hunt and Mrs Luetta Peabody. Continued on Page 11.
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Foover
Alfred E. Smith
A. G. Stanley
Kentucky
Ohio
Vermilion-on-the-Lake
Cuyahoga
Lorain
Cleveland
Elrria
Oberlin
Wellington
Graham Hunt
Cincinnati
Joseph McGowan
Canton
Smith
Houston
Luetta Peabody
Stanley
Herbert Hoover
Republican Party
Hoover
Al Smith Begins Western Campaign by Special Train
Governor Al Smith travels west aboard a luxurious special train en route to Omaha for his first farm relief focused speech. The trip marks his first major westward push, with crowds at Albany and a crimson torch-lit sendoff as he carries his brown derby and greets reporters and supporters.
Jury awards $600 to Charles Jihasz in 1926 bicycle collision
A common pleas jury under Judge A R Webber awarded Charles Jihasz $600 after his bike was struck by a Crooks Coal and Supply truck on July 26 1926. He sought $25 000 in damages for injuries from the accident.
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Common Pleas
A. R. Webber
Charles Jihasz
Crooks Coal and Supply Company
Julasz
Five Drivers Fined for Weekend Offenses in Lorain County
Justice 5 J George levied fines totaling 315 on five men arrested over the weekend by Sheriff E G Mathews and deputies Kyle Farrand. Elyria man fined 199 for driving while intoxicated after a Sunday Lorain read. George Martek fined 5 for intoxication at Whiskerville. Ernest Ingold of Amherst fined 100 for DWI after an accident at South Amherst. Lester Friday fined 10 for reckless driving. Mike Yourkovitch of 11 Shear Street fined 190 for DWI after colliding with another car near Lorain Sunday.
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Justice
J. George
E. G
Mathews
Kyle Farrand
Elyria
Lorain
George Martek
Whiskerville
Ernest Ingold
Amherst
Mike Yourkovitch
Shear Street
Yourkvitch
Loraine
Hoover Sets Out For New Jersey Campaign Tour
Herbert Hoover arrived in Newark at 2 p m to begin his New Jersey presidential campaign. He left Washington on a private car attached to a four car special train with Mrs Hoover and son Alan. He will speak in Newark and tour several towns through northern New Jersey reaching half a million people. The trip aims to energize votes near New York City and contrasts with Alfred E. Smith. The speech marks his first east of Iowa since nomination and the start of a four speech eastern push before October westward.
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Hoover
Newark
Herbert Hoover
New Jersey
New York City
Alfred E. Smith
Iowa
Pennsylvania Railroad
Palatka Hit By Heavy Wind
A heavy wind damaged power lines and caused damage in Palatka Florida. The Florida Power and Light Company reported strong northeast winds of about 40 mph, toppling trees and disrupting electrical transmission in the area.
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Palatka
Filasepe
Florida
Florida Power and Lizhi Company
Storm Moves East of Tampa New York
The weather bureau issued an advisory that the hurricane remained off the Indies and was moving northwestward, centering over the section east of Tampa Florida yesterday.
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Tampa
New York
Weather Bureau
Indies
Florida
Great hurricane strikes Florida coast severing towns
A major hurricane from the Indies battered the Florida peninsula on September 17, isolating West Palm Beach and Daytona Beach towns. Reports describe uprooted trees, collapsed utilities, and frightened residents as Red Cross and American Legion units mobilize for relief in Miami, Jacksonville, and Tampa. The storm’s center near Jupiter Inlet produced 90 to 140 mph winds and widespread darkness along the coast.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Out of the Indies
Florida Peninsula
Daxtona
West Palm Beach
Red Cross
American Legion
Miami
Tampa
Jupiter Inlet
Palm Beach
Daytouia Beach
Orlando
Yachts battered to pieces by hurricane in Daytona Beach
In Daytona Beach Florida the Halifax river yachts were smashed by high winds and rough seas as the hurricane edge struck. A Florida East Coast railway passenger train due at 3 50 am was overdue and believed marooned. Winds rose with a 34 am reading of 29.55 inches. Two houses on Ocean boulevard were leveled and 20 people were injured.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Halifax River
Ocean Boulevard
Hoover Opens East Campaign Tonight in Newark Speech
Herbert Hoover will launch his eastern campaign with a Newark New Jersey speech expected to draw about 20 600 attendees. Alfred E Smith heads west from Chicago toward Omaha for his farm belt tour. Senator Robinson, arriving in Miami as the West Indies hurricane hits its peak, offers his two special cars for relief use if needed. A Washington straw vote shows Hoover leading Smith by substantial margins across the 38 states counted.
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Herbert Hoover
East
Newark
N. J
Joseph T. Robinson
Miami
West Indies
Destructive hurricane kills 300 in Guadeloupe
Paris reports three hundred people killed in a tropical hurricane on Guadeloupe in the West Indies with 235 bodies recovered. The principal town Saint-Pierre was nearly destroyed and the colony lies 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico as the storm possibly followed a path from Porto Rico to Florida. Guadeloupe is known for severe hurricanes.
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Sulletin
Paris
Guadeloupe
West Indies
Point A. Pitre
Guudeloupe
Lesser Antiles
Porto Rico
Florida
Florida Cities Feel Storms Wrath
Fort Pierce reports telegraph and telephone service out to the south as the hurricane approaches. Western Union notes Lake Okeechobee flood threat with 60 mph winds and rising waters. St Petersburg braces as West Indies hurricane edges toward Florida. Jupiter Inlet towers toppled. temporary aerials reestablished. Orlando endures 75 to 99 mph winds with damaged trees. Contd on PAGE 74.
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Fort Pierce
Florida
Daytona Beach
Fla
Western Union Telegraph Offee
Crewiston
Lake Okeechobee
Orlando
Dave
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Fia
Naval Radio Station
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