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Domestic News September 3, 1927

The Nome Nugget

Nome, Nome County, Alaska

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In Boston on Aug. 29, after a silent eight-mile procession viewed by over 100,000 people, the bodies of executed radicals Sacco and Vanzetti were cremated at Forest Hill Crematorium. Ashes to be given to Mrs. Rose Sacco and Miss Luigia Vanzetti; brief ceremony with eulogy by Miss Mary Brown calling them victims of plutocracy.

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Boston, Aug. 29. (AP)—After a silent procession through eight miles of city streets, while more than a hundred thousand people looked on, the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti were reduced to ashes at the Forest Hill Crematorium.

The ashes will be turned over to Mrs. Rose Sacco and Miss Luigia Vanzetti, widow and sister of the two executed radicals.—The ceremony was brief and simple, there being no religious exercises. Miss Mary Brown, a member of the Sacco Vanzetti defense committee read a eulogy, referring to Sacco and Vanzetti as victims of the crassest plutocracy the world has

What sub-type of article is it?

Death Or Funeral Politics

What keywords are associated?

Sacco Vanzetti Cremation Funeral Procession Boston Executed Radicals

What entities or persons were involved?

Sacco Vanzetti Mrs. Rose Sacco Miss Luigia Vanzetti Miss Mary Brown

Where did it happen?

Boston

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Boston

Event Date

Aug. 29

Key Persons

Sacco Vanzetti Mrs. Rose Sacco Miss Luigia Vanzetti Miss Mary Brown

Outcome

bodies of sacco and vanzetti cremated; ashes to be turned over to family

Event Details

Silent procession through eight miles of city streets attended by more than a hundred thousand people; bodies reduced to ashes at Forest Hill Crematorium; brief and simple ceremony with no religious exercises; Miss Mary Brown read a eulogy referring to them as victims of the crassest plutocracy

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