Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ashes. Miss Luigia Vanzetti announced that she would take her brother's ashes to Europe via no U. S. city save New York. Mrs. Sacco was less definite, but enthusiasts bustled around Manhattan trying to lease Madison Square Garden or the Polo Grounds, the Yankee Stadium, Cooper Union or Carnegie Hall. All were refused. Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren of New York refused a parade permit. The enthusiasts said they would display the urns, strew Red carnations, sing the Internationale in Union Square, permitted...
Joseph Langone, officiating Boston mortician, refused to take them to Manhattan. Rumor had it he was waiting to be paid $700 for his services. Another rumor said that Miss Vanzetti objected to further display of her brother's remains. The absence of one of the chief exhibits deflated but did not entirely halt the Union Square meeting. A huge clenched fist, representing Labor reared itself aloft in the intermittent rain while orators reiterated complaints of the masses...
Inside a Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...
...Miss Anderson had become engaged to one Frederick Boehme, Stockton (Calif.) schoolteacher, a member of the U. S. student group attending the summer lectures. He stayed by the side of his fiancee until she died next day. Thus was a romance cut short and thus died the third U. S. citizen to be killed by Mexican bandits within the past two years. Fifteen others were killed or wounded in the attack, none of them U. S. citizens...
...Said Miss Rider: "We were all sleeping when the firing began. It sounded like a Fourth of July celebration. We were warned by the Pullman conductor that the train was being attacked and to be careful...