Detroit Rum Battlefront Grows As Fed Moves In
Resignation of Career Ferguson as customs chief in Detroit shifts to K R Norwood. coordination of customs prohibition and coast guard to curb illicit liquor flow. Indictments of 23 patrolmen for aiding smugglers. one jailed. Despite price rises, surface signs of intensified action are limited. Runners wage internal feuds at Ecorse and Chicago markets. Reports warn a real shooting may erupt between agents and smugglers, amid rival gangs and river operations with Canada. Liquor market reach estimated at 50 million dollars last year, fueling Chicago demand and internal clashes between Ecorse and Moran mobs.
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D. Ferguson
Detroit Border Patrol
K. R. Norwood
Prohibition
Coast Guard
Detroit River
Ecorse
Here
Chicago
United States
Moran
Edict to Control Liquor Trade Sparks Tension in Chicago
Reported plan by certain groups to monopolize liquor distribution in Chicago warns that any sale outside their channels must be disposed through them. Ecopse runners refuse the terms, signaling potential violent confrontation and the risk of bullets.
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Chicago
Local Guests and Farm Sale Headlines from Brighton
Brighton residents July 17 share visits with relatives including Mrs Woolen and Marcus Kovacs and Annabel Kovacs. Magadore church attendance by Greene and Bedford families. Holmes family from Litchfield visiting Walter Mosher and Yocum. James Hall farm purchased by O S Coats of Wellington with move planned in fall. Sunday callers at Charles Seeley house include George McConnell family and Ober Morriman from Wellington.
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Woolen
Marcus
Annabel Kovacs
Clair Goss
George Greene
H. C. Bedford
Magadore
Claude Holmes
Litchfield
Walter Mosher
Grandma Yocum
O. S. Coats
Wellington
James Hall
Charles Seeley
George McConnell
Ober
Dell Morriman
Penfield Notes On Local People And Reunions
Penfield society news lists graduates and visits including Robert Squires and Illa Andrews with Bald win Wallac commencement, plus family gatherings at Ralph Taylor's and P. T. Van Valkenburg events. Officers elected for 1930 are Carl Jackson, Earl Jameyson, and Gladys Jameyson. guests from Cleveland, Lorain, Akron, Lodi, Medina and Wellington. Sympathy extended for Pearl Fritz Humphrey. Community notices cover funerals, visits, travel, and a closing paragraph on astronomy remarking on limits of modern science.
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Carl Jackson
Lodi
Earl Jameyson
Gladys Jameyson
Cleveland
Lorain
Akron
Medina
Wellington
P. T. van Valkenburg
Pearl
Fritz) Humphrey
Waites
George Hastings
Clarence Grimes
New London
Dwight Smith
George Bullis
George Devereaux
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Martin Fritz
Clyde Minkler
J. K. Wolfe
Emmet Bower
Mildred
Mary Reich
John Wolfe
Wadsworth
C. E. Berry
Blake, Ohio
Lucille Greig
Arthur Handley
Huntington
Fulton
Arthur Fulton
Albert Kratzer
Daughte
Leroy
Elizabeth Gregg
Harry Gregg
Dr. Spangler
Inland Waterways to Be Rail-Grade by 1932
General Q T Ashburn, chairman of Federal Inland Waterways, stated that once Congress allocates the 10 million dollar equipment fund, government barge lines will reach railroad efficiency by 1932. Planned routes include Mississippi from New Orleans to Twin Cities, Missouri from St. Louis to Kansas City, and Illinois from Mississippi to Chicago, linking with Ohio lines Cairo to Pittsburgh. The first 2.5 million is available now, enabling fast freight moves, loading 1000 tons at St Paul and another 1000 tons at St Louis for New Orleans via river channels.
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ST. Louis
Q. T. Ashburn
Board
Federal Inland Waterways Corporation
Congress
Ashburn
Mississippi
New Orleans
Twin Cities
Missouri
Kansas City
Illinois
Chicago
Ohio
Cairo
Pittsburgh
Gulf
St. Paul
Vacation special boy's ham cut at temple barber shop
Max Slatzker invites friends to a vacation special at the Temple Barber Shop in the Masonic Temple Building with four chairs available on Saturdays and no waiting.
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Max Slatzker
Temple Barber Shop
Masonic Temple Building
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