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...Subscriber Parsons $2. Extract from the clipping: "During the blow a man in Pensacola opened his bedroom window and in blew a Miami Herald, printed only two hours previously, giving an account of the storm."-ED. Dead Wrong...
Then, suddenly, nine hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
...right angles. One starts at St. Louis and extends southwesterly with its fork reaching into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Another line extends southeasterly from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., where by arrangement with the Southern Railway it makes connection with the 147 miles of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola, of which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso...
Commander Byrd graduated from the Naval Academy in 1912. He was a student in the Graduate School of the University in 1917. In August 1917 he became incrested in aviation and went to the flying fields at Pensacola, Florida. He was the first aviator to advocate and practice flying by night over water, and the first who flew over water out of sight of land. From July 1918, until the Armistice he was in charge of the United States airforces of Canada. Hal fax and North Sydney. For his work during the World War he was awarded the Silver Star...
...Nine years ago, before the U. S. entered the War, Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne was sent to Pensacola, for instruction in flying. Ever since, he has appeared to other men as one whose feet were shod with wings...