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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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