Washington State's Democratic Senate primary is heating up with prohibition at the center, as former Seattle Mayor George F. Cotterill files to challenge A. Scott Bullitt in what's being dubbed a classic 'wet vs. dry' showdown. Meanwhile, a grisly confession rocks Colorado as 22-year-old Ray Noaken admits to hanging 75-year-old hermit Fred Selak with a halter rope after ransacking his cabin for just $75 and some old coins. The page buzzes with drama from multiple fronts: movie heartthrob Rudolph Valentino is under the knife for appendicitis in New York, a Baltimore woman abandons her English Channel swim attempt after battling lightning storms for over two hours, and Seattle mourns the loss of Major Edward Ingraham, the 79-year-old 'father of the Boy Scout movement' who climbed Mount Rainier and helped quell anti-Chinese riots in 1886.

This front page captures America at a crossroads in 1926 — still wrestling with the consequences of Prohibition six years in, as 'wet and dry' battles define political campaigns from coast to coast. The religious uprising arrests in Mexico reflect growing tensions over church-state relations that would soon explode into the Cristero War. Meanwhile, the concern over Republican Senate seats shows the political tides already shifting away from the 1920 'return to normalcy' wave, foreshadowing the Democratic gains that would reshape American politics in the coming decade.

• The surf bird's nest discovered on Mount McKinley represents the first known nesting site for a species that migrates an incredible distance 'from Alaska to the Straits of Magellan' — basically from the Arctic to Antarctica
• Major Ingraham climbed Mount Rainier in 1888 and formed the 'Home Guards' during Seattle's anti-Chinese riots in 1886, showing how one man witnessed the Pacific Northwest's transformation from frontier to modern city
• The miner Paul Baran defended his claim by killing three men near Priceburg, telling the sheriff: 'They killed my dog. They threatened to kill me so when I saw them coming up to my cabin with their rifles, I also opened fire'
• Steamer Princess Charlotte is arriving tonight at 7 o'clock with passengers including the Mullen family — wife and three children named Bernard, Beatrice and Virginia
• The Civil Service workforce has shrunk from 917,700 on Armistice Day to 860,700 — a reduction of nearly 60,000 federal jobs in less than eight years

• Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League, mentioned dismissing wet primary victories, was known as the most powerful man in America — he supposedly controlled six Congresses, a President, and dictated to the Supreme Court before his death in 1927
• Rudolph Valentino's appendicitis operation mentioned here would actually kill him — he died from complications just six days after this newspaper was published, causing mass hysteria and riots at his funeral
• The Hudson River commerce story describes subway tubes running beneath the river — these included the first underwater vehicular tunnel in the Western Hemisphere, completed just two years earlier in 1924
• Louis Mazer, charged with murdering editor Don Mellett in Canton, Ohio, was part of a corruption scandal so deep it reached the mayor's office — Mellett had been crusading against the city's bootlegging operations
• The 36 Shriners heading to Southeast Alaska on their '13th annual pilgrimage' were participating in a tradition that helped establish tourism as Alaska's future economic backbone, decades before statehood