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Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...
...Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk. It is due partly to the fact that most of Levinsky's fights have been in Chicago, where everyone knows that he grew up on the West Side and entered the fish-peddling business with a pushcart on Maxwell Street...
Chairman Porter retorted swiftly: "The city provides outdoor selling space for peddlers of meat, vegetables, pretzels, chestnuts and cheap jewelry. It is inconceivable that the city will do less for those who have devoted their lives to art than it does for the pushcart merchant. ... If they give us a chance we will put on a show that will be not only an attraction to New Yorkers but a new drawing card for the thousands who visit the city daily. . . . The show would contain some really fine things, not like the Independents' Exhibition...
...County Armagh, Orangemen and Republicans fought in the streets for two days with stones and bottles of Guinness's Stout. Orangemen rallied to the tune of "Dolly's Brae" and "Derry's Walls," and attempted to batter down the gates of a convent with an old pushcart for a battering ram. A well-flung whiskey bottle laid out the chief constable...