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Bungling ex-crimps book-ended shanghaiing era
Bunco Kelley was out of prison, Mysterious Billy Smith was at loose ends, and Jumbo Riley was looking for something to do ... somehow, they ended up …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give Sullivan a monopoly
Oregon's Sailors' Boardinghouse Commission seemed completely uninterested in any enforcement activity other than ordering Larry Sullivan's competitor…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
World boxing champ by day, shanghaier by night
After Jim Turk's death, former pro prizefighter Larry Sullivan virtually owned the shanghaiing business in Portland ... but there was one competitor …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 3 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…
3 months, 4 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…
4 months 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…
4 months ago