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Your daily paper for: Sunday, October 31, 1926
Article of the day
As printed 100 years ago on page 25 of: Evening StarWashington, D.C.

HOUDINI LINGERS

Context - explained by ACL:

A bulletin issued by the four attending physicians said the magician and escape king had reacted to a second operation within five days much better than had been expected.

A bulletin from four physicians on the magician and escape king, gravely ill in Detroit after a second operation.

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Editorial Cartoon ! Ready For Fray (L STRAIGHT F j DEMOCRATIC DONKEY The Democratic Donkey, shown above, is ready for battle with oldtime political another his rival, the Elephant. With betting [unclear figure] to [unclear figure] Hunt, and [unclear figure] 1 on Hayden, the donkey ’is certain he’ll make the elephant take to the mesquite in Tuesday’s election.
[Cartoon, Nogales International, Nogales, Ariz., October 31, 1926, page 1]
Illustrated Ad Newspaper advertisement announcing memorial meetings for a named man, with his birth and death dates in large type at left and right of his name across the top, and three columns below listing meeting halls, street locations, dates, times, and the speakers taking part.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 1]
Illustrated Ad Text-only advertisement in a ruled border, headed "Help Labor Prisoners and Defendants" with a subhead about a busy season for an organization in a city, inviting readers to come help on certain afternoons and evenings and to attend a boosters' meeting at a hall at a named street corner.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 3]
Full-page comic strip titled "Mr. and Mrs." in which a woman and a man argue in a series of panels about their son playing football, answer the door to a neighbor's complaint, and finally face the boy holding a football, with a small decorative strip of children and dogs at the bottom.
THIS SUNDAY COMICS

Mr. and Mrs.

Drawn by Briggs

[Comic strip, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1926, page 125. Tone adjusted from the page scan.]

Yesterday's edition

[Saturday, October 30, 1926]

Crime & Courts Imperial Valley Press

SAYS EVANGELIST SENT LETTER TO RADIO OPERATOR

Life & Times Evening Star

HOUDINI NEARS END

Nation & World The Daily Worker

QUIZ EXPOSES KLAN DEAL TO ELECT WATSON

Hoosier senator goes deeper into soup

Prohibition & Gangsters Douglas Daily Dispatch

SLUSH FUND PROBE WILL OPEN TONIGHT

Bootlegger made wealthy by using airplane service

Nation & World The Daily Worker

SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN

Hoosier is hooked up with imperial office

Tomorrow's edition

[Sneak peek]

Editorial CartoonCartoon showing a man in colonial dress with a hat marked "D.C." standing before a billboard headed "White House Bulletin" that reads "Let no voters abdicate their sovereign right of self government at the election on Tuesday by failing to vote," signed Calvin Coolidge, while he says "Sovereign right! There aint no such critter for me!" with the Capitol dome behind him.
Crime & Courts Brownsville Herald

REPORT LOSS MORE PAPERS

Life & Times Evening Star

FALTAL BLOW IS DENIED

Crime & Courts New Britain Herald

MURDER INDICTMENTS IN CANTON KILLING

Life & Times The Indianapolis Times

Tracy Career of Houdini, Famous Magician Both Unique and Inspiring

Nation & World Evening Star

BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY ON EVE OF VOTING TOMORROW Republicans Sure of House, But Democrats See Chance to Control Senate. COUNTRY GIVES NO SIGN OF HOW TIDE WILL TURN No Big National Issue Has Shown Up - Future of Smith, Ritchie and·Donahey at Stake

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Yesterday's paper

October 30, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Evening Star, The Daily Worker, Douglas Daily Dispatch, Brownsville Herald, and The Bismarck Tribune.

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Today's paper

October 31, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Daily Worker, Chicago Daily Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 1 Sunday, October 31, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
As printed 100 years ago on page 25 of: Evening StarWashington, D.C.

HOUDINI LINGERS

Context - explained by ACL:

A bulletin issued by the four attending physicians said the magician and escape king had reacted to a second operation within five days much better than had been expected.

A bulletin from four physicians on the magician and escape king, gravely ill in Detroit after a second operation.

Read original article
Page 25 of the Evening Star, the story outlined
[Where the story sits on the page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1926, page 25]

Read original article
Inside today's papers
[12 articles selected]
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More from today's papers

[9 more stories, with the cartoons and ads printed beside them]

Illustrated Ad Newspaper advertisement announcing memorial meetings for a named man, with his birth and death dates in large type at left and right of his name across the top, and three columns below listing meeting halls, street locations, dates, times, and the speakers taking part.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 1]
Illustrated Ad Text-only advertisement in a ruled border, headed "Help Labor Prisoners and Defendants" with a subhead about a busy season for an organization in a city, inviting readers to come help on certain afternoons and evenings and to attend a boosters' meeting at a hall at a named street corner.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 3]
Full-page comic strip titled "Mr. and Mrs." in which a woman and a man argue in a series of panels about their son playing football, answer the door to a neighbor's complaint, and finally face the boy holding a football, with a small decorative strip of children and dogs at the bottom.
THIS SUNDAY COMICS

Mr. and Mrs.

Drawn by Briggs

[Comic strip, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1926, page 125. Tone adjusted from the page scan.]

Yesterday's edition

[Saturday, October 30, 1926]

Crime & Courts Imperial Valley Press

SAYS EVANGELIST SENT LETTER TO RADIO OPERATOR

Life & Times Evening Star

HOUDINI NEARS END

Nation & World The Daily Worker

QUIZ EXPOSES KLAN DEAL TO ELECT WATSON

Prohibition & Gangsters Douglas Daily Dispatch

SLUSH FUND PROBE WILL OPEN TONIGHT

Nation & World The Daily Worker

SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN

Tomorrow's edition

[Sneak peek]

Editorial CartoonCartoon showing a man in colonial dress with a hat marked "D.C." standing before a billboard headed "White House Bulletin" that reads "Let no voters abdicate their sovereign right of self government at the election on Tuesday by failing to vote," signed Calvin Coolidge, while he says "Sovereign right! There aint no such critter for me!" with the Capitol dome behind him.
Crime & Courts Brownsville Herald

REPORT LOSS MORE PAPERS

Life & Times Evening Star

FALTAL BLOW IS DENIED

Crime & Courts New Britain Herald

MURDER INDICTMENTS IN CANTON KILLING

Life & Times The Indianapolis Times

Tracy Career of Houdini, Famous Magician Both Unique and Inspiring

Nation & World Evening Star

BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY ON EVE OF VOTING TOMORROW Republicans Sure of House, But Democrats See Chance to Control Senate. COUNTRY GIVES NO SIGN OF HOW TIDE WILL TURN No Big National Issue Has Shown Up - Future of Smith, Ritchie and·Donahey at Stake

Yesterday's paper

October 30, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Evening Star, The Daily Worker, Douglas Daily Dispatch, Brownsville Herald, and The Bismarck Tribune.

Newsletter

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Today's paper

October 31, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Daily Worker, Chicago Daily Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A Century Late
Vol. I, no 1 Sunday, October 31, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
As printed 100 years ago on page 25 of: Evening StarWashington, D.C.

HOUDINI LINGERS

Context - explained by ACL:

A bulletin issued by the four attending physicians said the magician and escape king had reacted to a second operation within five days much better than had been expected.

A bulletin from four physicians on the magician and escape king, gravely ill in Detroit after a second operation.

Read original article
Page 25 of the Evening Star, the story outlined
[Where the story sits on the page. Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1926, page 25]

Read original article
Newsletter

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Disasters As printed 100 years ago on page 1 of: Evening StarWashington, D.C.

LIEUT. F. H. CONANT, CRACK NAVY FLYER, IS BELIEVED KILLED

His plane found wrecked and sunk 30 miles north of norfolk, va.

Identified by numbers; no trace of the pilot

Schneider cup race aviator set 251 1-2-mile record in tests. lived with mother here

More from today's papers

[9 more stories, with the cartoons and ads printed beside them]

Illustrated Ad Newspaper advertisement announcing memorial meetings for a named man, with his birth and death dates in large type at left and right of his name across the top, and three columns below listing meeting halls, street locations, dates, times, and the speakers taking part.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 1]
Illustrated Ad Text-only advertisement in a ruled border, headed "Help Labor Prisoners and Defendants" with a subhead about a busy season for an organization in a city, inviting readers to come help on certain afternoons and evenings and to attend a boosters' meeting at a hall at a named street corner.
[Advertisement, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill., October 31, 1926, page 3]
Full-page comic strip titled "Mr. and Mrs." in which a woman and a man argue in a series of panels about their son playing football, answer the door to a neighbor's complaint, and finally face the boy holding a football, with a small decorative strip of children and dogs at the bottom.
THIS SUNDAY COMICS

Mr. and Mrs.

Drawn by Briggs

[Comic strip, Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1926, page 125. Tone adjusted from the page scan.]

Yesterday's edition

[Saturday, October 30, 1926]

Crime & Courts Imperial Valley Press

SAYS EVANGELIST SENT LETTER TO RADIO OPERATOR

Life & Times Evening Star

HOUDINI NEARS END

Nation & World The Daily Worker

QUIZ EXPOSES KLAN DEAL TO ELECT WATSON

Prohibition & Gangsters Douglas Daily Dispatch

SLUSH FUND PROBE WILL OPEN TONIGHT

Nation & World The Daily Worker

SEN. JIM WATSON PROVEN MEMBER KU KLUX KLAN

Tomorrow's edition

[Sneak peek]

Editorial CartoonCartoon showing a man in colonial dress with a hat marked "D.C." standing before a billboard headed "White House Bulletin" that reads "Let no voters abdicate their sovereign right of self government at the election on Tuesday by failing to vote," signed Calvin Coolidge, while he says "Sovereign right! There aint no such critter for me!" with the Capitol dome behind him.
Crime & Courts Brownsville Herald

REPORT LOSS MORE PAPERS

Life & Times Evening Star

FALTAL BLOW IS DENIED

Crime & Courts New Britain Herald

MURDER INDICTMENTS IN CANTON KILLING

Life & Times The Indianapolis Times

Tracy Career of Houdini, Famous Magician Both Unique and Inspiring

Nation & World Evening Star

BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY ON EVE OF VOTING TOMORROW Republicans Sure of House, But Democrats See Chance to Control Senate. COUNTRY GIVES NO SIGN OF HOW TIDE WILL TURN No Big National Issue Has Shown Up - Future of Smith, Ritchie and·Donahey at Stake

Yesterday's paper

October 30, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, Evening Star, The Daily Worker, Douglas Daily Dispatch, Brownsville Herald, and The Bismarck Tribune.

Newsletter

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Today's paper

October 31, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Evening Star, Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Daily Worker, Chicago Daily Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.