Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canton had quieted down for the night, but its 100,000 souls were, by no means, all asleep. Some worked on night shifts in the factories along foul Nimisillen Creek, making hardware, engines, safes, varnish, cutlery, paving bricks, structural steel. Some of them drained another, and then another and another glass in Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just...
...Canton was quiet. The town's respectable dance place, the "Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...Publisher Donald R. Mellett, crumpled and bleeding in his backyard, was not uselessly dead. Shooting him, the Canton underworld had shot away a flimsy facade that has been propped for years between Canton's law-abiding citizenry and a system of back-alley politics and vice-protection fought by Mr. Mellett in his paper...
Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, Owner James M. Cox of the Canton Daily News (who lives in Dayton), the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate, and others, subscribed thousands at once to apprehend the murderers. The U. S. district attorney set about collecting relevant material from statements made to him last March when Mellett testified in a Canton narcotics case-statements by Mellett that he had been threatened specifically by the Canton police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release...
...good people of a town the size of Canton are usually conscious of corruption on only two planes-the dismayingly magnified obscenities of their own local government, and the almost mystical dereliction of national officeholders, such as various members of the late President Harding's cabinet. But statues like the bronze McKinley of Stark County most likely perceive, from their detached points of vantage, that corruption of one kind or another is visible wherever mankind sets up what it calls government, at least in the U. S. Public prints for last week alone, resounded or echoed with the following...