The New Britain Herald's November 21, 1927 front page is dominated by the sensational George Remus murder trial unfolding in Cincinnati. Remus, a wealthy bootlegger, stands accused of shooting his wife to death on October 6th, allegedly in cold blood to avoid a divorce proceeding. The state's assistant prosecutor, Walter K. Sibbald, alleged that Remus lay in wait outside a hotel, followed his wife's taxi to Eden Park, and opened fire—all to silence a divorce suit that would have been finalized an hour after the shooting. The judge sharply limited both sides to two-hour openings with "plain statements of fact" only, barring the "emotional elaboration" Remus had planned. Equally dramatic is the Colorado mining strike where police opened fire on I.W.W. protesters, marking "first blood" in a labor war. Locally, a deaf and mute 18-year-old girl named Amelia Savacka is being deported today after four years in America—she'd been smuggled in on a dead child's passport. The paper also reports a $100,000+ real estate deal downtown and notes that Thanksgiving turkeys will cost 50-68 cents per pound, unchanged from last year.

This front page captures Prohibition-era America at a critical intersection. The Remus trial represented the spectacular fall of a bootlegger king—these mob-connected liquor barons were household names, their violence as much a product of Prohibition's black market as their wealth. Meanwhile, the Colorado mine violence reflected the bitter labor struggles of the late 1920s, when industrial unions clashed violently with employers and law enforcement. Immigration enforcement was intensifying in this period too; the Savacka deportation shows how aggressively authorities pursued documented immigration fraud, even for vulnerable individuals. These stories together reveal a nation still grappling with Prohibition's unintended consequences while tightening its borders and cracking down on labor organizing.

• Amelia Savacka's case hinged on a macabre bureaucratic loophole: she was brought to America on a passport issued to Mrs. Stilanin's dead daughter. Immigration authorities hoped five years would pass before deportation could be ordered—she was just one year short when caught.
• Young 'Billy' Wisk made his legendary escape by leaping from a *second-story window* of the city building to a paved yard below in June 1927—the police had believed he used a fire escape until his arrest revealed the dramatic jump. He survived and worked in tobacco fields for months before being caught at the Lyceum theater.
• The Red Cross campaign's detailed receipt breakdown shows that individual $1 contributions dominated (415 people gave $1 each), but the real money came from institutional lobbies: the Savings Bank lobby alone contributed $36 and the National Bank lobby $23.61—suggesting banks actively encouraged donations.
• Dorothy Lynch, a 7-year-old girl, was spirited away by her father Frank Lynch and a woman named Alice P. Rowe; they were arrested in Chattanooga under Mann Act charges (typically used against sex trafficking), suggesting the severity with which authorities treated parental kidnapping.
• The paper mentions Roleslaw 'Billy' Wisk is now 16 years old, having 'passed his 16th birthday anniversary' since his original juvenile court commitment—yet the original commitment still held and he was returned to the State School for Boys in Meriden, showing how juvenile records could follow you into adulthood.

• George Remus, the bootlegger on trial for murder, was one of the most famous criminals in America—a self-made millionaire who supplied illegal alcohol across the country. His trial became a national sensation precisely because Prohibition had turned organized crime into a celebrity business.
• The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) mentioned in the Colorado strike headline were the radical labor movement that scared corporate America; they'd been heavily suppressed during the Red Scare of 1919-1920, but labor violence continued throughout the late 1920s until the Great Depression forced a reckoning.
• Thanksgiving turkeys at 50-68 cents per pound in 1927 would cost roughly $10-13 per pound in today's money—showing how much cheaper holiday meat was a century ago, before industrial agriculture consolidation.
• The paper reports that 'practically all stock is on the floors of wholesale houses today' for Thanksgiving delivery—this was still an era when holiday poultry came from regional suppliers (western points and Vermont), not the nationalized supply chains that would dominate by mid-century.
• Cardinal Bonzano, mentioned in a brief item, was recovering from tumor surgery; he'd been the Apostolic Delegate to the United States and presided over the 1926 Chicago Eucharistic Congress—the Church's public prominence in American life during this era was far greater than today.