The Denver Gazette

90 YEARS AGO IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Editor’s note: Every day, The Denver Gazette reprints some of the best front pages of the Rocky Mountain News as pulled from its 100-plus-year archives.

“Yeggs,” in case you aren’t hip to slang, are safecrackers. They hit an Arvada bank and lugged away 378 pounds in loot, a total of $1,914 in “pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars and half dollars.”

Denver religious leaders hold a meeting to denounce the new chancellor of Germany’s “reported” mistreatment of Jews. But the story reports that the U.S. State Department has issued a comforting statement: “Whereas there was a short time considerable physical mistreatment of Jews, this phase may be considered virtually terminated.”

A short story reports the opening of a streetcar on the rail line from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek. One of those things that would have come in useful if they kept it.

FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS ARCHIVES

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