100 Years Ago Today
Today, a century ago · Wednesday, October 20, 1926Edition: Augusta, Daily Kennebec Journal

100 years ago today: Wednesday, October 20, 1926

Daily Kennebec Journal was printed in Augusta, Maine. This is its front page from today's date in 1926.

“Visit Annapolis and Baltimore Today, 'Then Back to New York”

Scan of the original clipping: Visit Annapolis and Baltimore Today, 'Then Back to New York

OCR text: Washington, Oct. 19—(AP) —The queen of Rumania to night exchanged the privilege of being the guest of the na tion for that of being the per sona! guest of its chief execu tive and its First Lady. Forty one hours after her triumpha! entrance through New York,

OCR text from Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, page 1. See the original page. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

Front page of Daily Kennebec Journal, Wednesday, October 20, 1926
The full front page as printed. Public domain scan, Library of Congress.

Questions from readers

What happened on Wednesday, October 20, 1926?

Front pages that day led with: “Visit Annapolis and Baltimore Today, 'Then Back to New York”. 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.