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Sunday, October 31, 1926Edition: National

Newspaper from Sunday, October 31, 1926

Evening Star

Washington, District of Columbia

“FIRES INTO CROWD ANDKILLSYOUTH.I9”

“R. H. Rule Held for Shooting”
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OCR text: W. F. Barbee, Jr., After Altercation at Club. William J. Barbee, jr., 19 years old. 1522 Vernon street, son of a retired detective, was shot and killed last night during an altercation between two groups of youths on the Burnt Mills road, and police are holding Richard Henry Ru1e,.22, son of Henry Rule., editor of the National Capital Press. 1827 Sixteenth street, for the Maryland authorities, in connection with the case. Rule is said to have admitted fir ing the shot which 1 ended Barbee's life, when he was threatened by some one in the latter's party.

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“FOUR KILLED*AT CROSSING”

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OCR text: WARREN, Ohio, October 30 </P>. Three men and one woman were killed and another woman was prob ably fatally injured tonight when their automobile was struck by an Erie train at the Quincy crossing here. *

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“TODAY S STAR”

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OCR text: PART ONE—fiO PAGES. General News—Local, National and i Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 22 and 23. News of the-Clubs —Page 30. Boy Scouts —Page 31. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 32. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 32. V. W. C. A.—Page 33.- Around the City—Page 34. Army and Navy News—Page 37. D. A. R. Activities —Page 38. Veterans of the Great War —Page 45. Financial News —Pages, 45. 48, 55, 56 and 57. Fraternal News—Page 47. Radio News and Programs—Pages Civilian Army News —Page 53. Girl Scout News—Page 58. PART TWO—IB PAGES.

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“Outstanding Foot Ball ( Games of Yesterday”

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OCR text: Navy, 10; Michigan, 0. Army, 33; Yale, ft. Princeton, 27; iswarthmnrc, 0. Illinois, 3; Pennsylvania, ft. Harvard, 69; Tufts, 6. Notre Dame, 12; Georgia I Tech. «. 1 Columbia, 17; Cornell, 9. Minnesota, 16: Wisconsin, Ift. Stanford, 13; Southern Cali* Maryland, 38: Gallaudet, 7. Georgetown, 31; Lebanon \ al ley, 7.

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“Extra Cost on Capital.”

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OCR text: BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The Veterans' Bureau is withdraw ing its patients from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and. as in recent years, these beneficiaries have been about one-fourth of the total number of pa tients in the hospital, while the Dis trict of Columbia has mo

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“The Evening Star Beginning Tomorrow”

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OCR text: A daily bit of sound advice in picture form, from a high medical source. Something New Entertaining and Practical and Reliable Clip the strip each day and collect a valuable health book

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“Unexpected—West Point”

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OCR text: Gets 33 to 0. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 30.—Un daunted by forecasts that made Mich igan an overwhelming favorite Navy vanquished the Western Conference foot .ball champions this afternoon. 10 to 0. More than 40,000 in Venable Stadium saw the Midshipment turn the tables on the team that defeated them 54 to 0 at Ann Arbor last year. It was the fifth successive victory for the eleven that has scored' over Princeton. and Michigan on successive Saturdays. Navy rallied in the last two periods to get all its points.

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“Banks. However. Sound Note of Caution About Borrowing”

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OCR text: Privilege in 1927. Approximately 2.883.900 adjusted • service certificates in the possession of World War veterans, with a face value of $2,975,000,000, will be available in 192 7 for deposit with banks as collateral security, on which the Veterans’ Bureau estimates $262,540,-! 000 may be borrowed. The drain under this policy on Washington banks assumes formi- \ dabie proportions when it is realized that they may be called upon to lend approximately $2,100,000 after Jan-1 uary 1 to some 23.000 holders of bonus certificates residing in the District.

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“Jewels Get on Wrong Ship and Go”

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OCR text: to Cuba and Back. NEW YORK, October 30 <4»>.— I Jewels valued at between $50,00" and I $60,000. which were lost by Mrs. Edwin I Knopf Os Fifth avenue while she was i returning last week from a. honeymoon I in Europe, have been fouud and re ' turned to her. detectives reported toMrs. Knopf missed the jewels when she debarked from the steamship Cont Rosso upon its arrival from l Europe. The Jewels were in a handbag which became separated from the rest of the baggage.

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Front page of Evening Star, Sunday, October 31, 1926
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South Bend News Times

South Bend, Indiana

“FOR FEDERATED CHARITIES FUND”

“Drive Closes, But Directors”
“Expect to Reach Goal”
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OCR text: of $175,000. With $84,400 already subscribed, and a large number of reports still out, the drive for the Federation for Social Service closed Saturday night, with those in charge confident that the quota of $175,000 would be reached by the time all the reports are in, and all the work of the drivb cleaned up. This may require one or two weeks more. The directors of the drive were elated over the success of the drive in the first week of intensive can vassing.

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“STODEBAKERS TO PAY REGULAR DIVIDEND”

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OCR text: Directors of the Studebaker cor poration voted ' at their meetting Saturday to pay the regular quar terly dividend of $1.75 a share on preferred stock, and a divident of $1.25 a share on common stock. The dividends will be payable Dec. 1. on stock of record at the close of business Nov. 10. The quarterly statement of the Studebaker corporation, showing earnings for the third quarter, was published in the News-Times Satur day.

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Front page of South Bend News Times, Sunday, October 31, 1926
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The Montgomery Advertiser

Montgomery, Alabama
Front page of The Montgomery Advertiser, Sunday, October 31, 1926
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Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, Texas
Front page of Brownsville Herald, Sunday, October 31, 1926
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Questions from readers

What happened on Sunday, October 31, 1926?

Front pages that day led with: “FIRES INTO CROWD ANDKILLSYOUTH.I9”; “FOUR KILLED*AT CROSSING”; “FOR FEDERATED CHARITIES FUND”; “STODEBAKERS TO PAY REGULAR DIVIDEND”. Each story above is quoted from the original page.

Is this the real newspaper?

Yes. Every headline and story is taken from the scanned page and its OCR text at the Library of Congress. OCR can misread letters, so the scan is shown next to the text.