Bank Robbery at Winchester Bank by Two Negro Bandits
Bandits armed with revolvers robbed a bank in Winchester while the cashier stood at the teller window. One robber vaulted the cage, opened money drawers, and seized paper currency while the other kept the cashier under threat. They fled in a car with West Virginia plates, heading north toward West Virginia. Police pursued. licenses not recovered.
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VanDeventer
Eetones
VanDeverer
Hit
Boyce-Winchester
van Deventer
West Virginia
Winchester
Pannett
Berryville
Boyce
Pike
Florida Death Toll Soars After Hurricane Devastation
Reports from the hurricane battered area describe a death toll running into hundreds with Miami Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale hard hit. Buildings wrecked, thousands homeless, and relief efforts rushed by Red Cross as officials warn of continuing danger from afterwaves and flooding.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Pensacola
Telegraph Company
Atlanta
Florida
Associated Press
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Uion
Pe ‘Ola
Ween Montgomery
Mobile
Ala
Miami
Jerry Odes
Florida East Coast Railroad
Hollywood
Paoli
Fort Lauderdale
Moorehayven
West Palm Beach
Frank H. Warden
Miami Beach
Homestead
Pompano
Burr
Bahamas
Red Cross
West Alm Beach
Tampa
Fort Pierce
Slocum Ball
Red Cross Committee
Martin
American Red Cross
Moorehaven
Clewiston
Flooded Route Delays Florida East Coast Train Dispatch
On Sunday morning travel between Palm Beach and Miami was halted as highways flooded. A special Florida East Coast train was sent but contact was lost after departure, while cars with first aid supplies and reporters faced impassable roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Beac
Miami
Florida East Coast
Stock Market Dives After Florida Storm Losses
New York on September 20 reports a stock market setback despite some gains in select rails and high grade industry stocks. Large fire losses in Florida and affected insurance firms trigger heavy selling, with call money rising to 5 percent and total trades near 1.9 million shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Florida
Three Americans Wounded In Yangtse River Skirmish
Three American soldiers were wounded, none seriously, when gunboat Pigeon came under fire Saturday morning near Hanyang on the Yangtse. The fire was returned and Chinese casualties were not known, reports from Hankow through foreign telegraphs.
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Associated Press
Peking
Hanyang
Yangtse
Hankow
The Magic of the Medicine Man
In early pioneer days an Indian Medicine Man used roots and herbs as remedies for many ailments. Lydia Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts popularized a Vegetable Compound relied on by women for over fifty years.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Public Sale of Desirable Dwellings in Winchester VA
Default on two deeds of trust by John Phoenix and wife leads to a public auction on October 9 1926 at 11 a.m. The sale covers two adjoining house and lot properties on South Braddock Street in Winchester with detailed boundaries. One third cash and balance in one and two years with two secured bonds, six percent interest, waivers of homestead exemption, and the policy of insurance. Trustee James P. Reardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Phoenix
Winchester
Virginia
Braddock Street
James P. Reardon
ORFOLK & WESTERN Schedule May 2, 1926 Berryville VA
Train times schedule shows routes from Berryville to Roanoke Bristol and beyond with Pullman sleepers to Gary and Philadelphia. Special for Chattanooga Nashville and Memphis with connections at Roanoke. Fares reservations and information available from H H Burks Berryville and J L Bladon Roanoke. Also note barbering shop ad and a garden lottery quip.
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Orfolk & Western
Berryville
Roanoke
Bristol
Bluefield
Welch
Norton
Waynesboro
Pullman Sleeper
Gary
W.va
Memphis
Chattanoga
Nashville
Pullman War
Broiler
Shenandoah
Hagerstown
Shenandoah Junction
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pullman
Jno
L. Bladon
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Key West
Roy Jackson
Jackson
Miamis Tribune
Holywood
Palm Beach
Vla
Hollywoo
Dania
Ojus
Hialleah
Hallendale
Aed
Gerald F. Besne
Fort Piere
Lydie McClelland Baxter
Jupiter
Hyracina
Cape Biscayne
Savannah
Atlantic Coast Line
Samuel W. Craylor
Allentown
Ford
Maxwell Touring
Chevrolet
Northern VA
Motor Cgo., Inc
Loudoun St
Winchester, Va
Hart
Jack Dempsey
Tunney
Serta
de Saeed
Paris
Newares
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