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Died. Frank Tinney, 62, star of oldtime Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll revues, during the early '20s one of Broadway's three leading blackface comedians (the other two: Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor); in poverty, at Northport...
...m.p.h. was breakneck speed for a "naphtha launch." Last week, when the 37th Gold Cup race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...
Hardest hit State was Alabama, with 299 killed. Hardest hit town was Northport, Ala., across the Warrior River from Tuscaloosa, where 28 died, six in the collapse of a livery stable whither they had fled for safety. The wind dropped into a lumber yard, picked up a cloud of timber and impaled people with gigantic arrows shot from an invisible...
...fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there helpless all night. One Tom Marcum went out in his yard at Piney Grove, Ala., picked up and returned somebody's receipt book to Northport, 16 miles away. At 4 p. m. the tornado struck the Tuscaloosa Country Club. At 4:15 p. m. members began rummaging among the ruins for their golf clubs...
...Northport, L. I., William Weyrauch was engaged in cleaning out the old Lecoq house, long unoccupied. He discovered a bottle of Scotch whiskey dated 1842. No lawbreaker, William Weyrauch destroyed...