100 Years Ago Today
Today, a century ago · Wednesday, October 20, 1926Edition: Brownsville, Brownsville Herald

100 years ago today: Wednesday, October 20, 1926

Brownsville Herald was printed in Brownsville, Texas. This is its front page from today's date in 1926.

Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, Texas

“Great Damage is Wrought in Havana;”

“Storm Moves North”
Scan of the original clipping: Great Damage is Wrought in Havana;

OCR text: MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 20.—(/P)—A tropical storm of great in tensity, whipping out of the West Indies, was lashing the west coast of Cuba today and threatening to leap across to Weather Bureau reports from Washington, describing the disturbance as of ‘ great intensity” said it was moving north of northeast and hurricane warnings were ordered for the southern Florida coast and storm warning for central Florida. With northeast winds expected to reach hurricane force late this afternoon over extreme southern Florida, Miami and other cities took all precautions.

OCR text from Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, page 1. See the original page. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

Front page of Brownsville Herald, 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: “Great Damage is Wrought in Havana;”. 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.