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Rapidly became the most influential Italian anarchist periodical in North America, receiving worldwide distribution. Through this new publication, in 1905 he published the bomb-making manual La Salute è in voi! ("Salvation Is Within You!"), in which he supplied to his readers the formula for making nitroglycerine, compiled by a friend and explosives expert, Professor Ettore Molinari. -
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At 6 a.m. on April 1, 1913, a noisy crowd of 500 gathered in the street near the plant and kept many workers out of the building. The town became an armed camp as the Industrial Workers of the World
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July 5 marked the return of all workers to the plant. It had cost the company not only a large sum of money but also lost production time. The employees lost 13 weeks pay and gained nothing.
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Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude. Age 16.
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At a press conference he told an American journalist, "I cannot deny it. It is true." -
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Federal agents raided the offices of the Cronaca Sovversiva in Lynn, Massachusetts, arresting Galleani and shutting down the newspaper. -
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18-year-old Gabriella "Ella" Antolini Segata, of the Italian Galleanist circle, was caught by a suspicious train porter. The dynamite was potentially en route to Milwaukee, where anarchists had been squaring off with police in a series retaliatory attacks stemming from the September 1917 Bay View incident. Antolini Segata was imprisoned for 18 months and the case was a big break for the Bureau of Investigation agent Rayme Weston Finch, who would come to lead investigations against Galleanists -
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He receives 15 months (November 1920)
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The Hayden family was on vacation at the time and only the Judge's son Malcolm Hayden was in town. The bomb which exploded just before midnight nearly destroyed the home at 11 Wayne Street. The son while walking home saw a car speed away and then the explosion. -
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A. Mitchell Palmer named 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover to head a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division (GID), with responsibility for investigating the programs of radical groups and identifying their members. -
Police Commissioner Edwin Upton Curtis denied that police officers had any right to form a union, much less one affiliated with a larger organization like the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Attempts at reconciliation between the Commissioner and the police officers, particularly on the part of Boston's Mayor Andrew James Peters, failed. During the strike, Boston experienced several nights of lawlessness.
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Arrested and brought to the BOI offices on Park Row during or immediately after the Palmer Raids. Salsedo was considered to be one of the writers of the radical pamphlet Plain Words. At the BOI offices, Salsedo was harshly interrogated and was denied the right to phone his lawyer and his family. According to some sources, he stayed in the offices for eight weeks, incommunicado. On 3 May 1920, his body was found on the pavement in front of the BOI offices: he had fallen from the 14th floor. -
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Two men were robbed and killed while transporting company's payroll in two large steel boxes to the main factory. Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, was shot 4 times as he reached for his hip-holstered .38-caliber revolver; his gun was not recovered from the scene. Frederick Parmenter was shot in the chest and a second time, fatally, in the back as he fled. The robbers escaped in stolen dark blue Buick that was carrying others. The robbers fired at workers nearby while fleeing.
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How Salsedo died is still unclear. Some sources say that he got up at night, silently walked across the room and jumped out the window. According to Roberto Elia, Salsedo could have been killed for fear of betraying other fellow anarchists. The Boston Herald reported that before dying, Salsedo gave names of other anarchists. Other sources say he was severely beaten numerous times during his interrogations, and was ultimately killed by officers. -
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Inhaled gas in his parents' house in Fall River, Massachusetts. Newspaper reports called death accidental. The night before his death, Wilcox had confessed to his older brother, George Lester Wilcox, himself a graduate of Harvard, that he had been having an affair with Harry Dreyfus, an older Boston man. -
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The jury deliberated for five hours and returned guilty verdicts on both counts, armed robbery and first-degree murder. -
12 to 15 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed
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Boston Art Club
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Officers from the Joy Street police station raided the club using sledgehammers to break down the doors. There were more than 50 young people partying there that night. Police found a half dozen empty whiskey bottles, a half-empty bottle of brandy, and took several flappers away in a patrol wagon. -
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Marmon Motor Car Company
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Hardings came by the presidential yacht Mayflower, escorted by naval vessels. Hardings rode in an open automobile to lead a grand parade.
The parade kicked off at 11:30 a.m.
President, Vice President, state federal officials
Military units (including sailors and marines)
Veterans from Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, Fraternal organizations Floats from local communities commemorating historical episodes, and floats representing industrial Plymouth
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U.S. philanthropist Urbain Ledoux, who billed himself as "Mister Zero", staged a job fair in Boston in which he displayed 150 unemployed job seekers on an auction block in the same manner of slaves, including having the men pose shirtless, to be "auctioned off" to potential employers. -
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Though Houdini had announced his retirement from vaudeville to make movies, he went back on the vaudeville circuit for a 10-week tour commencing Christmas week at B.F. Keith's in Boston. To publicize his return, Houdini did a suspended straitjacket escape from the Boston Post building. The temperature that day was a bone chilling 14 degrees with what was described as a "stinging Northwest gale." The escape benefited the "Santa Claus Fund" and marked Houdini's first such outdoor stunt since 1917. -
Pursuant to the new one-term restriction, Curley was elected mayor in 1921 but was not able to run for re-election in 1925. He served four separate terms as mayor (1914–1918, 1922–1926, 1930–1934 and 1946–1950) and always held influence even when he wasn't in that office. -
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Bruins team played their first NHL game against their expansion cousins the Maroons, at Boston Arena, with Canadian skater Smokey Harris scoring the first-ever Bruins goal.
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