5 stories, chosen from 11 newspapers of the day and shown exactly as they were printed. Every clipping is the original page, linked to its scan at the Library of Congress.
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ContextNicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchists, were convicted in 1921 of murdering a paymaster and a guard in a payroll holdup at South Braintree, Mass., the year before; the case has drawn protest meetings in America and Europe. A motion for a new trial on newly discovered evidence is heard by the same judge who presided at the original trial, Webster Thayer.
ContextEugene V. Debs, who helped found the American Railway Union and the Socialist Party and ran five times for president, died Wednesday at a sanitarium near Chicago; Terre Haute, Ind., was his lifelong home. He ran his last campaign, in 1920, from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, where he was serving a sentence under the Espionage Act for an antiwar speech, and President Harding released him in 1921; Victor Berger, Morris Hillquit and Seymour Stedman were leading figures in his party.
As printed: MANY BURIED ALIVE; NEAR EAST RELIEF SENDS QUICK HELP
ContextLeninakan, formerly Alexandropol, is a city in Soviet Armenia. Near East Relief is an American charity founded during the World War that runs orphanages and hospitals for Armenian refugees.
ContextLeon Trotsky organized the Red Army after the 1917 revolution, and Grigory Zinoviev headed the Communist International, the Moscow body that directs communist parties abroad; since Lenin's death in 1924 the party's leadership has been contested. The political bureau, or politburo, is the small committee that sets Soviet policy.
As printed: King Ferdinand Asks Queen to Return, Vienna Hears, But Rumor Is Denied
ContextMarie, queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is touring the United States with her son Prince Nicholas and her daughter Princess Ileana. Her husband, King Ferdinand, remained in Bucharest.