Beneath the glow of a flickering theater sign, a woman in a beaded rayon shift adjusts her cloche hat, her bobbed hair catching the artificial light as she scans the frantic headlines of Obregon’s midnight flight. The silhouette of the modern age is hardening before my eyes, shifting from the dust of the Mexican revolution toward the clinical hum of a commercial radio station.
It is a world of sharp angles and rising costs; I watch a shopkeeper meticulously ink a sign for a loaf of bread at **$0.11**, a price that seems the bee's knees to those who don't yet see the coming inflation. The scent of fresh newsprint and industrial grease hangs heavy in the spring air as the first Band-Aids are applied to a century just beginning to bleed.
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The Headlines
REPORT ATTEMPT TO KILL CARRANZA; BATTLE IN SONORA; Aid to Obregon's Campaign Manager Is Arrested as the Would-Be Assassin. OBREGON FLEES CAPITAL With Colonel Hill, He Escapes in High-Power Motor Car Without Interference. SONORA FIGHTING STARTS Carranza Troops from Sinaloa Open Attack on the Self-Styled " Republic."
Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.