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Dust Bowl storms

Drought and soil erosion sent immense dust storms across the Great Plains. Newspaper pages from 1931 to 1939 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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5179 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (805 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1931-01-08, page 16

    … alias. THREE MEN DIE, ONE HURT I ' 1 Airplane Crashes When Pilot Is Blinded by Dust Storm. i MEXICO CITY, January 8 (A 5 ). —Three I men were killed Tuesday and a fourth …

    … was probably fatally Injured when the pilot, blinded by a dust storm, crashed his plane Into a hangar. The dead are Salvador Nunez Fer nandez, Manuel …

  2. The Washington Daily News — 1931-02-07, page 3

    … started before daylight. We never got any sleep. “That next morning we ran into a dust storm, a terrible thing; dust so thick you can’t see. Gets in your I Gen. Charleft P. …

  3. The Washington Times — 1931-04-07, page 3

    … fident that the danger of pes tilence has been averted. Granada reported that a dust storm there handicapped the work of surgeons, interfering with treatment of patients …

  4. Evening Star — 1931-04-15, page 15

    … CHICAGO, April 15. —Big export business in North American wheat and renewal of dust storms in Spring wheat territory led to material fresh upturns in grain prices today. …

  5. Evening Star — 1931-04-16, page 14

    … in registration. (Copyright, 1931. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. > DUST STORMS CAUSE DAMAGE IN WHEAT BELT By the Associated Press. The Weather Bureau said yesterday …

    … “considerable damage” liad been caused in the Spring wheat belt by dust storms which last week swept from lowa and South Dakota northwestward. Storms also did …

  6. Evening Star — 1931-04-19, page 4

    … Reasonable charges ( Convenient terms A gear to pag ORRIS LAN j | j ! . ! Great Dust Storm In Canada Limits Vista to 20 Feet Bribe Associated Press. REGINA. Saskatchewan, …

    … Saskatch ewan today, while in the north ern portion of Alberta there was snow. A dust storm, cutting visibility to 20 feet in some sections, swept over this region yesterday …

    … . It was the third heavy dust storm in recent weeks. Light snow fell at Drumhellcr, Red Deer and Hanna. Alberta, with …

  7. Evening Star — 1931-04-23, page 5

    … Allen. 40. was killed by the falling of a tree near Medford, Ortg. Rain, hail and dust storms visited Arizona and air mail planes on the Southern route were grounded. Skies …

  8. Evening Star — 1931-04-26, page 18

    … reported by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Mu seum of Natural History. A dust storm source of the rich farmlands of the Mis sissippi Valley was explained by Dr. | …

  9. Evening Star — 1931-04-28, page 15

    … Coffee unsettled; trade selling. CHICAGO.—Wheat steady; bullish Kansas report and dust storms, Canada. Corn easy; exosllsnt weather and poor cash demand. Cattle steady to lower …

  10. Evening Star — 1931-05-26, page 15

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … lower; easier spot market. Coffee lower; European selling. CHICAGO,-Wheat firm; dust storms Canada and bullish Kansas estimate. Corn firm; small receipts ard absence rain …

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