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September 20, 1926

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Headlines from September 20, 1926

HURRICANE RAGES 9 HOURS; It Ravages the East Coast From Miami to Palm Beach. HEAVY SEAS FLOOD CITIES Lake Okeechobee Breaks Its Dikes and It Is Feared Hundreds Have Drowned. LOSS MAY BE $100,000,000 Thousands of Buildings Are Wrecked, Roads Blocked, Wires Down -- Martial Law in 3 Cities.

By Reese Amis, Miami News Reporter, Who Left the Stricken City Saturday Afternoon.special To the New York Times

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 19. -- A sixty-mile stretch of the Florida east coast, from the Palm Beach district on the north to the Miami district on the south, was devastated Saturday morning by a tropical hurricane that swept in from the Atlantic Ocean at 130 miles an hour.

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Giant Electric Engine Pulls Mile-Long Train At 32-Mile Clip in Successful Tests Here

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Electric locomotive pulls mile-long train at 32-mile speed in successful test in N Y C

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MIAMI SCENE OF WRECKAGE; Wooden Houses Razed or Unroofed--Steel Buildings Twisted. ALL SHIPS IN HARBOR SUNK Refugees From Stricken City, Fleeing Northward, Are Picked Up by Trains. SPECTRE OF FAMINE RISING But Relief Is on the Way--Travelers From Area Call Ruin Indescribable. TYPICAL MARINE VIEWS AT MIAMI. MIAMI HOUSES RAZED MANY SHIPS SUNK

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$500,000,000 OFFER BY BERLIN TO ALLIES TO RELAX THEIR GRIP; Stresemann's Proposal to Briand Contemplates the Sale of Railway Securities. FIRST ISSUE $125,000,000 Asks Return of Rhineland, Sarre, Eupen, Malmedy and Freedom From Control. BANKERS HERE APPROACHED Berlin Admits Ultimate Success of Scheme Depends on Marketing Bonds in America. $500,000,000 OFFER BY BERLIN TO ALLIES

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Stresemann's proposal to Briand contemplates sale of $500,000,000 in German ry bonds in exchange for return of Rhineland, Sarre, Eupen, Malmedy, and freedom from control

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1926Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)^[†]

Libero Liberati was an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1952 to 1959, most prominently as a member of the Gilera factory racing team where he won the 1957 500cc world championships.

Headlines from September 20, 1926

HURRICANE RAGES 9 HOURS; It Ravages the East Coast From Miami to Palm Beach. HEAVY SEAS FLOOD CITIES Lake Okeechobee Breaks Its Dikes and It Is Feared Hundreds Have Drowned. LOSS MAY BE $100,000,000 Thousands of Buildings Are Wrecked, Roads Blocked, Wires Down -- Martial Law in 3 Cities.

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Giant Electric Engine Pulls Mile-Long Train At 32-Mile Clip in Successful Tests Here

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