Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports of aliens smuggled into this country continue to appear. Forty aliens, including several Somalilanders, were discovered acting as strike breakers in railroad shops at Scranton and Ashley, Pa. Striking shopmen called the attention of the Government to their presence. Deportation proceedings are under...
...fleets are beginning to be a regular feature of those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
...Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a city built upon the coal industry. This is perfectly literal, since many of the mines run under the city and buildings not infrequently cave in as a result of dangerous tunneling. Now it has been discovered by mining engineers employed by the city that the Richter Coal Company has been unlawfully mining beneath Nay Aug Park, thus imperilling the lives of hundreds of pleasure seeking citizens. But it appears that the coal digging was not illegal because it endangered people's lives; it was illegal because the coal belongs to the Scranton Coal Company, which...
Three well organized gangs of bootleggers are said to control the landing and distributing business in Highlands, one gang from Newark, one from Trenton, one from Scranton...
Gerald Garvey Dolphin of Scranton...