The front page is dominated by the conviction of Martin J. Durkin, dubbed 'the Sheik,' who received a 35-year sentence for murdering federal agent Edward C. Shanahan. After an all-night jury deliberation that nearly came to blows, Durkin recoiled at the verdict and muttered 'God—Almighty,' while his mother became hysterical, shrieking 'If I only had a gun I would kill him before your eyes rather than let you torture him for 35 years.' The killer angrily declared he'd 'rather have had the rope than 35 years,' claiming he was convicted on his character rather than evidence. Meanwhile, a statewide manhunt is underway for Kenneth G. Ormiston, the missing radio operator who's become a key witness in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping mystery. Three carloads of detectives fanned out across California searching for the former Angelus Temple employee as the grand jury prepares to reconvene.

These stories capture the wild contradictions of 1926 America—a nation simultaneously fascinated by celebrity scandal and gripped by very real violence from Prohibition-era crime. The Durkin case represents the deadly cat-and-mouse game between federal agents and criminals in the bootlegging wars, while the McPherson mystery epitomizes the era's obsession with religious spectacle and media sensationalism. The famous evangelist's alleged kidnapping and miraculous desert return had captivated the nation, blending Hollywood glamour with old-time religion in a way that perfectly embodied the Roaring Twenties' cultural tensions.

• President Coolidge is spending his summer vacation learning to fish at Paul Smith's, N.Y., practicing casting from a boat dock every single day after catching just one 15-inch pike that somehow weighed three pounds
• Secret Service agent Col. William Starling is proving a much better angler than the President, having caught 54 bass and pickerel in just four hours
• South Bend's mayor created a special tourist service bureau with 5,000 four-page folders containing traffic maps, promising visitors that 'it will have to be an aggravated case, indeed, for a tourist to be booked for a traffic law violation'
• An 11-year-old Mishawaka boy remained unidentified for eight hours after a car accident because his injuries made recognition so difficult that hundreds of anxious parents came to the hospital trying to see if he was their child

• The newspaper cost 10 cents and boasted a circulation of 26,104—in today's money, that Sunday paper would cost about $1.50, showing how newspapers were still affordable luxury items
• The temperature in South Bend plummeted from a record 92 degrees on Thursday to just 58 degrees by Saturday—a 34-degree swing that the weather bureau called 'unusual for this time of year'
• While South Bend was enjoying cool lake breezes, New York was suffering through its hottest July 10th in 15 years at 94 degrees, with 12 heat deaths reported
• The submarine S-51 mentioned on the front page had been underwater for nine months after being rammed off Block Island—submarine rescue technology was so primitive that it took nearly a year to recover the bodies of the 33 sailors who drowned
• Martin Durkin's case went to the jury at 10:50 p.m. with prosecutors demanding he be hanged, but the initial test ballot was reportedly 8-to-4 for acquittal before the overnight arguments that 'nearly came to blows' changed everything