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Rum Running on the Detroit River
Mayo, Morrow | September 4, 1929 issue

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This article presents information on the smuggling of liquor from Windsor, Ontario into Detroit, Michigan. The two cities face each other across the Detroit River. This stream, which is owned jointly by the U.S. and Canada, is eighteen miles long and a mile wide. It is one of the busiest pieces of water in the world; at this time of the year an average of 1,500 craft operate in it every hour of the day. Liquor has been crossing in every conceivable manner. Until recently about 4,000 cases were landed on the U.S. side every twenty-four hours. The liquor is delivered in wooden cases. Each case contains two handy packages of six quarts each, packed between heavy cardboard in square burlap bags.

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SMUGGLING; BOOTLEGGING; WINDSOR (Ont.); ONTARIO; DETROIT (Mich.); MICHIGAN; CANADA; UNITED States
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