From The Santa Fe New Mexican:
Dec. 10, 1924: It is rumored here today that an attempt will be made early in January to break the will of the late John M. Blain, for forty or more years a merchant of Santa Fe owner of the new and second-hand and certainly curious looking store on Lower San Francisco street.
In his will old man Blain left the bulk of his fortune, consisting of property estimated at $18,000 to $20,000 in value, and $1,500 in cash as well as many mining stock certificates to the “Socialist Society” of the United States of America. Mr. Blain’s two sons, gray haired business men of Texas and Arizona, were cut off, one with $500 and the other with a $100 legacy…