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	Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties - Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway - Philip P. Mason
		Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties - Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway - Philip P. Mason
		Although violating Prohibition was pervaisive and widespread throughout the United States, nowhere more than in Michigan was the general public so involved in innovative and industrious smuggling of contraband liquor.
		In Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties, Philip P. Mason provides a fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /glb/mihistory/masonrrrt.htm (133 words)

	Suffolk Times
		She hesitated, but her husband quickly recognized the situation and allowed the stranger to enter and call a friend, who came to his rescue.
		The old-timers who once only whispered of their exploits -- and some were too afraid to do even that -- are coming before the cameras this week to tell the stories of their exploits to the History Channel.
		That dichotomy was revealed in area churches where preachers would discuss the sins of alcohol from their pulpits while harboring cases of liquor in their basements, according to Mr.
	www.timesreview.com /st05-17-01/stories/news5.htm (1156 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Olmstead, Roy (1886-1966) -- King of King County Bootleggers
		Inevitable byproducts of prohibition were "rumrunning" and "bootlegging." For any Seattle resident wanting a quart of booze, there was always someone ready to supply it -- for a price.
		Clark, was unloading Canadian whiskey from a rumrunning launch at the Meadowdale dock three miles north of Edmonds.
		Even though rumrunning was an inherently hazardous and violent endeavor, Olmstead did not allow his employees to carry firearms.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=4015 (2717 words)

	Rumrunners
		Although there are many books about prohibition, Craig's is the first to concentrate on the stories of the women and men who made rumrunning their profession during those 14 years.
		As the skipper of the Black Duck, he was the fastest rumrunner on the East Coast and evaded the Coast Guard for over a year until his ship was fired on, killing two of his crew in a controversial seizure.
		The "booze baronet," as the newspapers called him, became a millioniare offering shares in his rumrunning business to English investors, but lost it all when his operation was exposed.
	www.craigbrandon.com /Rumrunners.html (1029 words)

	Intemperance
		The rumrunning fleet was called the “mosquito fleet.” [yes, them skeeters get pretty big in Michigan.] The “Prohibition Navy” was a rag-tag collection of commissioned boats from several places, for several forces, and boats seized from the rumrunners.
		The Detroit News described rumrunning by iceboat as “adventure framed in moonlight, and as grim as the romance of the buccaneers of the Spanish Main....
		In many of these towns, the police ignored rumrunning, or even helped, to the point of helping unload, and warning rumrunners when the feds were coming into the area.
	www.hoboes.com /html/Politics/Prohibition/Notes/Intemperance.html (5343 words)

	The Purple Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The three men had violated underworld code by operating outside the territory allotted to them by the Purple Gang leadership.
		Three members of the "Little Jewish Navy," a group of Purples who owned several boats and participated in rumrunning as well as hijacking, decided they would break away from the gang and become an underworld power themselves...
		The predecessors of Detroit's modern day Mafia family simply stepped in and filled the void once the Purple Gang self-destructed." Detroit News
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Purple_Gang (473 words)

	A New Kind of Detective Work
		Early on it became apparent that the rumrunners were encrypting their communications to thwart the Coast Guard's mission, and by 1927, the use of codes and ciphers among rumrunning vessels was commonplace.
		The CEC syndicate virtually monopolized rumrunning in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico.
		The work of the cryptanalysts proved to be the smoking gun needed in what would become the famous rumrunning trial.
	www.nsa.gov /publications/publi00009.cfm (1256 words)

	[No title]
		They were, at first, looked upon as freaks although they retained the narrow beam of their round-bilged counterparts (a 62' yacht with a 10' beam was not unusual).
		In the twenties, the breed was improved because of demands for higher speeds in racing, commuting and, of course, rumrunning.
		It became generally accepted in the thirties and early forties that to absorb still higher power hulls should become wider to efficiency rise and skim the surface.
	www.rexyachts.com /midnight/acase.html (3337 words)

	boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		TH: Most of its rumrunning was pretty sedate in that it steamed up from San Francisco and threw out the anchor and sat there off the international limits.
		Sure it was an expensive boat to maintain but don't forget: A) it wasn't using up a lot of fuel, and b) rumrunning was hugely profitable.
		Although it's a small chapter in B.C. history it is important in that it kept a lot of seamen and shipyards busy when the economy was truly bust.
	www.nsnews.com /issues99/w020899/boats.html (880 words)

	Sask 2005 New Home Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The city of Moose Jaw’s name is thought to be derived from ‘moosegaw’, a Cree word meaning ‘warm breezes,’ as the city is blessed with mild prevailing winds.
		Moose Jaw, nicknamed ‘Little Chicago’ in the 1920s, must have been overwhelmed by the lawlessness of the time, as the city became a notorious centre of rumrunning and prostitution.
		The tunnels existing beneath many of Moose Jaw’s downtown buildings, built by Chinese railway workers attempting to dodge the ‘head tax,’ are rumoured to have been used by rumrunners to smuggle liquor during the prohibition era.
	www.saskatchewancentennial.com /facts/skfactsresults.asp?ID=368 (122 words)

	RCMP-History-Mod3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While it was the task of the RCMP to enforce all federal statutes, a major part of its activities during this period was the attempt to eliminate the smuggling of liquor and the trafficking in illegal drugs.
		Liquor smuggling, or rumrunning, was widespread and was directly related to the government's prohibition policy, according to which alcoholic beverages could be legally obtained only with a doctor's prescription.
		With the aid of radio and aircraft, an air-land-sea patrol was developed which proved effective in curtailing smuggling, especially rumrunning.
	www.rcmp-learning.org /history/history_mod3.htm (3946 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their Town is a unique book about Hamilton, a study not of the local corporate elite or labour leaders but rather of the people who in fact ran the city, day by day.
		The authors offer accounts of the 50-year history of organized crime in the city from its origins in rumrunning during prohibition; accounts of the business and politics of the only newspaper in town; an anatomy of the Liberal Party machine in Hamilton East.
		Throughout the book contrasts the profligacy of the city’s elites among themselves with the paucity of their concern for the city’s less fortunate citizens.
	www.formac.ca /main_book.php?id=542 (161 words)

	Suffolk Times
		Until then, he ran one of the most lucrative rumrunning operations in Greenport.
		They've been in Greenport shooting part of a two-hour special for the History Channel featuring Greenport's rumrunning history during Prohibition, from 1920 through 1933.
		Reenactments of the rumrunning operation also took place on Long Island Sound last Thursday aboard the Mary E and the Mariah Lee.
	www.timesreview.com /st05-24-01/stories/news5.htm (1098 words)

	Bugsy Siegel
		As cover for their rumrunning operation, Siegel and Lansky operated a car and truck rental operation through a garage on Cannon Street in Brooklyn.
		While Lansky watched over the gang’s ever-increasing businesses, Bugsy was the point man for the rumrunning racket.
		Lansky was never shy about lending a hand when an extra gun was needed, but it was Siegel who craved the excitement of taking a shipment of illegal booze or highjacking another gang’s property.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/siegel/prohibition_5.html (1302 words)

	Govenlock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Govenlock's pioneer days, scores of thirsty Americans from Montana eagerly, and repeatedly, met the incoming trains after a long arduous journey across the border, and north up the dusty trails following their state's prohibition declaration in 1919.
		Often braving rumrunning outlaws - some who didn't think twice of hijacking their valuable stock, the Montana booze traders headed back across the border to Havre, particularly to the "underground mall" where prohibition had sent good times down below the streets.
		The turn-of-the-century honky tonk speakeasies were packed with wild cowboys and thirsty miners, letting loose with good old-fashioned frontier rot-gut from north of the border, and maybe a further trip to an opium den and bordello.
	www.ghosttownpix.com /sask/towns/govenloc.shtml (888 words)

	GalvestonHistory.info
		In addition to prostitution, smuggling and rumrunning have always flourished on Galveston Island.
		The illegal booze was off-loaded outside the three mile limit from schooners that sailed from the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, or British Honduras.
		Their rumrunning operation, the Beach Gang, controlled the south side of the Island.
	www.galvestonhistory.info (3356 words)

	Tempered by Rum: Rum in the History of the Maritime Provinces. by A. A. Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Part one deals with the manufacture of rum, with legal sellers and drinkers of the stuff, and with attempts to control the trade.
		Part two is usually concerned with temperance, prohibition, rumrunning, and economic consequences of the illegal rum trade.
		Part three (here the distinction is very tenuous indeed) deals with the ''logistics' of the rum trade.A few typographical errors have escaped the editorial vigilance; none are of great significance.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/704/rum35.html (298 words)

	Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
		The Purple Gang always preferred hijacking to rumrunning and their methods were brutal.
		Anyone landing liquor along the Detroit waterfront had to be armed and prepared to fight to the death as it was common practice for the Purples to take a load of liquor and shoot whoever was with it.
		The three men, Hymie Paul, Isadore Sutker aka Joe Sutker, and Joe Lebowitz, were lured to an apartment on Collingwood Avenue on September 16, 1931.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=183&category=life (1170 words)

	Author Looks Back At When Rumrunning Was Big Business
		The best tales, however, are told by the natives who grew up in the first part of the last century.
		They lived through Prohibition, when rumrunning was big business in this corner of Vermont.
		Local historian and journalist Scott Wheeler of Derby has taken his love of a good story and his current pursuit of oral history from the 20th century and turned it into his first book.
	www.caledonianrecord.com /pages/top_news/story/976d0d8e0 (1008 words)

	Fundy Shore Ecotour, The Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The house later became an inn and is now operated as a museum by the Parrsboro Shore Historical Society.
		In addition to the stories of such notables as Tupper, it contains records of rumrunning and information about some of those who pursued this lucrative trade.
		The museum also incorporates a genealogical research centre.
	www.centralnovascotia.com /glooscap/fundyshore/tour_parr19.htm (134 words)

	New Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This timeless book includes eyewitness accounts to one of the most important periods of California's 20th century.
		More than 100 photographs, most never before in print, tell the story of California bootlegging, rumrunning and moonshining - the Roaring '20s in California.
		A must for history buffs and lovers of California's past.
	www.reninet.com /hchs/OneEye.html (61 words)

	Mysterious Islands: Forgotten Tales of the Great Lakes
		The book and film, Mysterious Islands, is a fascinating historical journey to islands in the vast basin of the five Great Lakes.
		Standing removed and alone, islands have been central to some of the most important, outrageous and tragic events in Great Lakes history, from a decisive and bloody naval battle in the War of 1812, to Prohibition rumrunning, to harrowing tales of shipwreck and rescue.
		The waves of time have left many islands behind, but remnants of the past still mark their shores- burial grounds, grand hotels, abandoned quarries, lighthouses, strategic forts, and even a castle.
	www.lynximages.com /mimain.htm (711 words)

	The Mediadrome - History
		Rumrunning and Hijacked Hooch - The Purple Way
		In Brooklyn, it was the Five Points Gang.
		Lucky enough to be living on the Canadian border during a time when booze was banned, they took advantage of their position and climbed to the top of the underworld heap.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/purple_gang.htm (1525 words)

	STBF - OUR HERITAGE
		Official Washington did not really have its heart in the enforcement of the Volstead Act when we observe that the Coast Guard was pitted against the rumrunner's fleets of high powered sea skiffs with only slow, hand rowed surfboats anchored in the Inlet Channels.
		There were some amusing scenes that evolved from the rumrunning days.
		A prominent Bible quoting "dry" resident of the day was spotted walking along the shore, carefully cradling a bottle of rum-row scotch under her arm while, at the same time, trying to disguise the contents of the package.
	www.savethebeaches.org /heritage.htm (11961 words)

	The Times - Mobsters, Mayhem & Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By the early twenties, the Purples had developed an unsavoury reputation as hijackers, stealing liquor loads from older and more established gangs of rumrunners.
		Sarcastically referred to as “The Jewish Navy”, The Purple Gang preferred hijacking to rumrunning– and their methods were often brutal.
		Anyone landing liquor along the Detroit waterfront had to be armed and prepared to fight to the death, as it was common practice for the Purples to steal a load of liquor and shoot whoever was with it.
	www.walkervilletimes.com /34/mobsters1.html (1948 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway - ...
		Barnes and Noble.com - Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway - Philip P. Mason - Hardcover
		Using police and court records, newspaper accounts, and interviews with those who lived during the time, Philip P. Mason has constructed a fascinating history of life in Michigan during Prohibition.
		Most entertaining are the hundreds of photos capturing the essence of the era: the creative smuggling efforts undertaken by citizens of all walks of life...
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=376Q69DMTH&btob=&isbn=0814325831&itm=3 (225 words)

	Long Island History: Rumrunners Run Around LI
		The Freeport Point Boatyard built more than 30 rumrunning boats, and it also built 15 Coast Guard vessels designed to catch them.
		City historian Roberta Fiore said that one police commissioner, Moe Grossman, organized all rumrunning in the city.
		Municipal employees reportedly used the light in the clock tower of the old City Hall to signal rumrunners when it was safe to land.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs715b,0,7354308.story (1075 words)

	Arnold Rothstein's Gangster Connections
		This racketeer lived in A.R.’s Fairfield Hotel and controlled New York’s produce supply, and literally penned written contracts to have his enemies rubbed out.
		Arnold Rothstein's activities included highstakes gambling, high-interest loansharking, rumrunning, fencing stolen goods, labor racketeering, and drug trafficking.
		Such occupations brought him intimate contact with a veritable "who's who" of gangland characters, including men who would lead organized crime from decades to come.
	www.davidpietrusza.com /Rothstein-gangsters.html (159 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prohibition spawned an entirely new industry in Provincetown: rumrunning.
		Policing it caused the Coast Guard destroyer, Paulding, to collide with the submarine, S-4, killing all aboard.
		A broken circle of metal at the base of the cross is part of the sealing ring from the S-4 conning tower brought up in the net of a fisherman and placed with the cross.
	www.provincetowngov.org /historic/timeline/timelink/1927submarinesinks.htm (1212 words)

	New Folklore Book Dedicated to UMaine Folklife Center Founder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The center that he founded is now honoring his scholarship with its newest volume of essays.
		MacDougall, who co-edited the book with David Taylor, folklife specialist at the American Folklife Center, wrote a biographical sketch of Ives that appears at the beginning of the volume.
		Other essays deal with topics as varied as Canadian folksongs, the Ceilidh Trail, rumrunning in the Maritimes and boatbuilding in Newfoundland.
	www.umaine.edu /News/Archives/2000/Dec00/ives.htm (277 words)

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