Word: baumler
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...mining towns, the scarcity of women helped bordellos flourish, but "Butte boasted of having the prettiest women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
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