SECOND TO CHICAGO
BOSTON AS CENTRE OF VICE
VANCOUVER, 9th December,
The startling statement lias 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 has, since prohibition, reached the staggering figure of twelve millions sterling annually. Tour thousand speak-easies and fifteen thousand professional bootleggers supply the city with 90,000 gallons of booze weekly, while it is alleged that policemen in uniform and driving police automobiles, are active ageiits in the delivery of wet goods.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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90SECOND TO CHICAGO Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13
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