#rum running

"Motorboat With Liquor Is Chased," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 20, 1933. Page 5. ---- Compelled to Return to Gananoque - Liquor and Ale Seized ---- GANANOQUE, June 20 - The out-board motorboat "Lucky 2", driven by Charles Jobson of Alexandria Bay, with his brother John, as passenger proved unlucky yesterday afternoon when it was chased for about a mile by R.C.M.P. Officer Harry G. Lomas and compelled to return to Gananoque, from whence it had set out a short time previously with a load of liquor. Five dozen quarts of ale and fifty bottles of liquor were seized, and the boat and occupants allowed to proceed.

The last meeting of the Town Council until Fall will be held in the Council Chamber this evening.

Mrs. John Boyle, Garden Street, returned on Friday from Toronto, where she spent the past two weeks the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ethel O'Reilly.

J. G. Schaeffer, B.Sc., left for Saskatoon on Wednesday after spending the past few months here.

Mrs. Marie Boyle, nurse-in-training at Guelph, spent the past two weeks with her father, Mr. L. A. Boyle, King Street.

Mr. and Mrs. George Carpenter of Kingston spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mirandi, Main Street.

Where the rum is at, Dominican Republic, September 2021. 

In an attempt to tame rebellious Americans, Prohibition outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol.  The experiment had several unexpected results, the most damaging however was that it encouraged organised crime and the rise of the American Mafia. They would offer security for speakeasies, defend illegal breweries and rum-running activities from enemy gangs, and pay off any suspicious cops or politicians to look the other way. It wasn't long until the mobsters were making ridiculous sums of money, and leaders and policemen were carrying out the instructions.

Lucky Lady * (1975, Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Michael Hordern, Geoffrey Lewis, Robby Benson, John Hillerman)

Director Stanley Donen’s 1975 musical Lucky Lady is unlucky for everybody. It is a glossy, vastly costly but rather aimless and (at the box-office of the day) total flop romp about 1930s Prohibition liquor smugglers, redeemed by the three talented stars, who are appealing in a love triangle.

Lisa Minnelli (as Claire) sings (good) and even Burt Reynolds (as Walker Ellis) sings (bad). Gene Hackman…