A Centre of Vice
BOSTON'S ILLICIT LIQUOR 90,000 gallons" in a week VANCOUVER, Dee. 9. A startling statement has been made that Boston has assumed a place second only to Chicago as a vice centre. It is stated that illicit liquor traffic has, since prohibition, reached the staggering figure of £12,000,000 annually. Four thousand speak easies and 15,000 professional bootleggers supply llie city with 90,000 gallons of booze weekly, while it is alleged that -olicemen in uniform and driving police automobiles are active agents in the aelivery. of wet goods.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 47, 11 December 1929, Page 5
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90A Centre of Vice Stratford Evening Post, Issue 47, 11 December 1929, Page 5
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