That newspaper article is a spoof, from The Onion's 1999 book "Our Dumb Century." The headline at the top says that Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed "on two counts of wopness." (The evidence that led to their death sentence was a big controversy in 1927.)

If it's any consolation, The Onion's book is so convincingly designed for a period "feel" and so well put together that quite a few people have been taken in by it over the years. Which is the main reason I'm not going to flag this post. Everyone slips up now and again! :¬)