Wow. I’ve been trawling around in the much of the 60 year period of 1880 to 1940 off and on for a few years now; I can’t get over some of the stuff I encounter, like Alice e.g., and I have never, ever heard of.
Another example is the ‘Great Sedition Trial’, in the 1940’s. The details of that trial neatly dovetail with todays NY Times refusal to dump the pulitizer awarded to it for that fellow’s reports of the paradise of the USSR. Utterly Orwellian.
(Now, totally of subject, have you ever heard of this? I’m sure you have, but I wanted to let you know of it if you hadn’t. I learned of it the first time today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism )
I’m always coming across new stuff, too. Are you familiar with the labor wars in the mining areas of the West, in the 19-teens, I think - Idaho and Colorado, and the murder of (iirc) a governor of Idaho? Senator Borah had some involvement in that mess, too.
The Sedevacantists are a running joke among most Catholics. Battier than an interstate overpass.