Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Innocent though the Negroes may have been, the midwest's weather was wicked. It rained and blew as the President, after dedicating a monument at Cincinnati, proceeded down the newly-canalized Ohio River. The river steamer Mississippi, especially equipped for the President's ride to Louisville, went aground...
Last week Borger was cleaned up. General Wolters, satisfied, left for Houston and his law practice. Said he: "Well, we finished the job at Borger. The Sheriff, the Mayor, the City Commissioners, the Justice of the Peace and the Constables resigned, and for good measure we took the resignation of...
On his parlor radio a code-wise listener-in in Wisconsin heard screeching buzzes: "S. O. S.-S. 0. S.-Water up to- ' That was all. He telephoned the Coast Guard. But they heard no more signals. Next day the Milwaukee, one of the Grand Trunk R. R.'...
¶On the north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell...
¶In Chicago, beaches, lakeside parks and streets were awash, strewn with rocks and wreckage. Breakwaters crumbled before the unprecedented autumnal surge. Chicagoans fled through the storm from shorefront homes and hotels. Hundreds of feet of concrete boulevards were crumpled. Waves mounting up 30 feet battered a new government lighthouse...