BOSTON’S NEW CULTURE
PROHIBITION (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, December 9. A startling statement has been made that Boston has now assumed a place second only to Chicago as a vice centre. It is stated that the illicit liquor traffic at Boston City has, since Prohibition, reached the staggering figure of twelve millions sterling annually. In Boston four thousand “Speak Easies” and fifteen thousand professional bootleggers, supply the city with ninety thousand gallons of booze weekly, while it is alleged that the policemen in uniform and those driving the police automobiles are active agents in the delivery of “wet” goods.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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