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Shanghaiing in Portland: P-town's time as shanghaiing capital of the world (2 of 2)
AS OF THE time of this writing, there is some disagreement over the status of Oregon’s largest city. It all came to a head last month when the Presid…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Shanghaiing in Portland: How the 'crimping' business worked (1 of 2)
Shanghaiing was the most extreme form of a practice called 'crimping,' which was basically a human-trafficking operation that ran on something like f…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
How ‘FBI’s Most Wanted’ gangster was busted
The mild-mannered drywall contractor turned out to be a notorious gangster after an article in the Morning Oregonian published his mugshots; he was w…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
‘Hold-up session’ featured big drunken house party
The fix was in -- all the legislators who needed to be bribed had been paid off -- so John Mitchell felt comfortable 'fessing up to his plans to doub…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
‘Oregon’s Outback’ a real moonshiner’s paradise
Central and Eastern Oregon was “Oregon's liquor cabinet” during Prohibition; its wide open spaces and tight-knit communities made busting bootleggers…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bing cherry has its roots on the Oregon Trail
WHEN CHERRY SEASON rolls around, there’s never much doubt about what varieties you’ll find in your local grocery store. They’ll usually have some whi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Gov. T.T. Geer is Oregon’s ‘patron saint of bicyclists’
Hopping on an old steel one-speed and pedaling 30 miles, then mowing a half-acre of lawn with a push mower, chopping down an oak tree twice, and ridi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
For Oregon pioneer family, highway robbers were lifesavers
The armed men who apparently came to rob and kill the travelers helped pull them over the summit of McKenzie pass instead - after discovering there w…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘Diamond Bill’ Barrett was a modern Mr. Wickham
'Diamond Bill' Barrett earned his nickname by sweet-talking a jewelry store into letting him borrow a $55,000 diamond, which he promptly hocked. Late…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Rescue station keeper’s cowardice got 11 killed
At the critical moment, the keeper of the rescue station at Cape Arago lost his nerve and deserted his waiting crew. Eleven shipwrecked sailors drown…
1 month, 3 weeks ago