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Tattooing Sailors Turned Into Illness And Folklore
The article recounts how tattooing among white sailors spread as a self harming fad using electric needles in port cities. It notes identity hopes for drowned sailors, mentions a New Orleans Mafia figure Sylvestro Carollo who died at 74 amid an organized crime probe, and highlights laws restricting tattooing abroad plus a Mexico pamphlet offer from Uncle Ray for scrapbook readers.
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New Orleans
Sylvestro
Sam” Carollo
Louisiana
Carollo
Italy
Mexico