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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
2
Robbers raid a mail truck on Broadway in New York, securing about $1,000,000 in cash and parcels. Police investigate the heist as witnesses report a quick getaway and a burst of activity along the street. Investigators seek surveillance footage and motive as authorities review patrol records.
A mob of four assailants forced a mail truck to stop at a city street, rifling four registered mail pouches valued at $1,000,000. The driver was threatened with a gun before the robbers fled, pursued by police as Investigators noted the heist along Leonard Street. The driver survived the ordeal.
New York fans sent a bonus check to Christy Mathewson who battles illness at Sars anac Lake after a benefit game for the former Giants pitcher on Sept BU. The piece notes his wife’s earnings in the 1905 World Series and recounts Murty leading the Giants to three wins over the Athletics. Also mentions a lynching of an Appleton suspect and a mob’s actions surrounding the shooting and transport of the wounded man.
Kenosha Wisconsin reports the death of Rev Ursula Newell Gestefeld founder of the Science and Being movement. A lecturer and author, she died at nurse Adeline Briggs home after a months long illness. Born in Augusta Maine she joined the circle around Dr Mary Baker Eddy and lectured in Boston and Chicago.
A garbled report cites a failed Soviet policy. It mentions a plot against Jews, warnings, and letters to American and French officials. The piece discusses police findings, a Paris consul general, threats to Americans, and a violent incident in Orange involving two suspects burned in a barn. The passage is fragmentary and inconsistent with unclear events.
A brief item notes a new program aimed at social adjustment to achieve a stated Soviet goal. The report highlights official emphasis on policy shifts and public messaging as part of strategic efforts.
The article reviews Bolshevik debates on economic policy and a shift toward police guarded buildings to prevent outbreaks, with quotes on wartime socialist experiments and the tension between capitalist reestablishment and communist production, including warnings of dire consequences if failed. It also notes the death of Mrs. Cody, widow of William F. Cody, and her marriage history and background.
Chicago based American Farm Bureau Federation announces the first movement to organize farm women in the dietary issue with an expected 2 000,000 strong organization. Jane Addams, noted social worker, will address the federation's newly appointed women's committee as the effort aims to improve farm household practices and welfare.
An erratic report describes a ceiling collapse in the Senate anteroom, with broken gold and glass globes. The confusion mentions Senators Pom erene and Swannan, and notes a governors conference planned for December in Madison, Wisconsin, to address unemployment and other national issues.
The State Board of Control and the State Department of Public Works announce tentative plans to accelerate a building program over the next months. The initiative aims to expand and improve numerous state institutions with an expenditure of a large state sum. Egerton Shore of the board of control outlined the details.
In the House of Commons Lloyd George declares the trade and unemployment situation worst since the end of the Napoleonic War. He outlines government causes and suggests postwar pressures could be resolved by a single wartime effort.
Enlistment bulletin urges realtors to back President Handing and Hoover, arguing building activity will create jobs and revive the economy. Calls for public deposits to fund construction and for cooperation with national bodies to address unemployment. Denver meeting notes contractors touring the country to promote revival of building as key to economic readjustment. Charles Schwab asserts business laws will self-correct without heavy legislation.
Oscar Stone 12 years old was fatally injured when his bicycle veered on a steep grade near Connell Hutte and collided with a roadside horse feeding. The horse kicked and struck the boy in the neck, severing the jugular vein. he bled to death before aid arrived.
Ray Paree, 17, who confessed to killing his high school sweetheart, pleads in a letter to Governor McCray to be sent to the electric chair rather than life in Terre Haute Jail awaiting trial for first degree murder. Maj Gen Willan Witherspoon, 71, retired army chief of staff, dies at home in Washington from a heart attack, survived by his widow and son Lieut. Alexander S. Witherspoon, U.S. Navy.
A pistol battle ten miles southwest of Osceola Town between bandits and a sheriff posse left one man dead and two others fatally wounded, with a fourth severely wounded after bandits looted the Columbia area post office and three nearby stores.
Chicago reports that K W Morrison a 31 year old heir ends a long court battle by having a prior spendthrift finding set aside and regaining control of property valued at 8 1/2 million restored to the aged man
Warren C. Spurgin, president of the Michigan Avenue Trust Company, Chicago, identified by W. F. Bennett of Miami as the man who died by his own hand in a lock hotel. Bennett asserted the identification after reading a local paper’s likeness report.
Stanwood Johnstone of Minnesota Herbert Hopkins Portland Ore Thomas Moulin Eiffel Harold Skisner of Osk Park were killed Walter Reckless of Wisconsin sustained a broken leg and injured hand when the automobile they rode in was struck by a freight train at the outskirts of Chicago.
Budapest forces rout Charles forces in a sharp clash near the Capitol region as invading armies report gains and heightened fighting intensity amid ongoing hostilities.
Chaos grips Hungary as Charles plans return to the throne. Government troops fortify around Komorn and Bickerwich while rails are torn up to block the royalist advance. Regent Horthy leads forces near Budapest amid proclamations of martial law and calls to curb conspirators.
A bomb exploded in the Paris residence of American ambassador Myron Herrick injuring the valet who opened the package. Herrick arrived two minutes after the blast as threatening letters linked to recent murder convictions of two Italians in Massachusetts were received by the envoy.
Admiral Earl Beatty lands in New York to a hearty crowd. Read Admiral Hugh Redman, honorary aide to the first sea lord, accompanies Beatty with his American wife, their 12 year old son Peter, and Miss Gwendolyn Field, Lady Beatty's niece, at his side.
Sawtelle becomes an independent city after a state Supreme Court decision upholding the legality of its annexation vote and refusing to rehear the case. Los Angeles loses a district area as Sawtelle forms its own government and the case ends with no police district remaining.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder troubles often misattributed to other causes. The ad promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, urging readers to obtain a bottle at a drug store and test samples by sending ten cents to Dr. Kilmer Co. in Binghamton, NY, with paper mention.
Life and See It tonite treats a noble hero earning four thousand dollars yearly, a dramatic portrait of endurance amid adversity. The piece contrasts ordinary struggle with ambitious moral triumph, underscoring persistence as a defining virtue.
Secretary Lawson Purdy of the Charity Organization Society denounces professional beggars as self righteous. He recounts a winter scene of a beggar woman with three calico ragged children, noting the cruel irony of financial support blamed on unown parentage.
A hold up man boasts of a large haul while his partner predicts they will become landlords and make real money. The exchange reflects a bold, if unlawful, pursuit of wealth and social ascent as printed in the New York Sun.
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