5 stories, chosen from 26 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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ContextHarry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, was the most famous magician and escape artist of his day and had spent his last years publicly exposing spirit mediums; he fell ill while touring and was operated on in Detroit for appendicitis. Peritonitis is an infection of the lining of the abdomen, which doctors of the time had few means of checking.
As printed: STABS KILL YOUTH AFTER HIS BULLET GRAZES MUSSOLINI
ContextBenito Mussolini has governed Italy as premier since his Fascist Black Shirts marched on Rome in October 1922, and is known by the title "Il Duce." Victor Emmanuel III is king; carabineers are Italy's military police; the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus is a royal order whose sash is worn across the breast.
As printed: Begin Trial Today Of Pastor Norris For Killing in Texas
ContextThe Rev. J. Frank Norris is pastor of the First Baptist Church at Fort Worth and one of the country's leading fundamentalist preachers, known for attacks on city officials. Fundamentalism is the movement defending literal scripture against modernist theology and the teaching of evolution; William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic orator who argued the Scopes evolution case, died in 1925.
ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall, rector of a New Brunswick, N.J., church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on an abandoned farm in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and is being prosecuted at Somerville by special prosecutor Alexander Simpson. Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall is the rector's widow, and an alibi is a defense that the accused was elsewhere when the crime occurred.
