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...spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer had been arrested for de- portation during the anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little that morning with the housewives. "At the same time, Nicola Sacco was working in Stoughton...
...Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved...
This is no doubt the printer's error, but it is perhaps well to notify our less informed brethren so that they may not think the Church found it expedient to recognize the saintliness of a six-year-old child. St. Therese was a Carmelite nun, 24 years of age at the time of her death...
...Subscriber Waterman thanks and a perfect copy. To the printer and binder, a thoroughgoing reprimand...
Perhaps you cannot agree with my viewpoint, but I think those printers who are not members of the union are unfair to themselves in not taking advantage of the benefits, such as the old age pension and eligibility to enter the Printers Home, which that organization has to offer. It is certain that a member of the International Typographical Union will not have to go to a judge in a criminal court and ask to be confined in prison so he will have a place to eat and sleep, as one printer recently did in Brooklyn...