The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 14

The Foremost Newspaper In The Two Carolinas- SLNDAY SEFIEMBER 6 1925 SECTION 1HE bUNDAY OBSERVER PAGE '1 WO 'OF1 PICT (I OFT SHENA2Vp0Aff7DIS4STg PAGE 1 I ill-Fated Shenandoah Breaks in Two in Ohio Storm 1111NIMNIW Ill-Fated Shenandoah Breaks in Two in Ohio Storm memo- INWEIIIMMO And Where Fourteen Fliers Were Hurled to Death I I ok MN MEMEIMINOMNIROMINuoroadrannw oinaboo 47 4RAZ 44711117 Ut at-1 rtif i(VWZAkH4141t17F- 4 4 4444 fliCtV 0 101f1114 Allehmolissotalionaftlmokomoomosamfte gooo 7A 24'1 ci 4k-) 0- tiEgr 4 kr: 4" IA) 411i FAIEVFS' 4r 41r rie437------ Ir f'77 A-04 -11 4t 104 4)14 -1- 4we- -r-' 1st lz --4 (474' 1- 12-416! 4 I 4 44:: ''A -o 1i xr I1 1 T'-44 61 tL! 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