Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give Sullivan a monopoly

Plan to stop shanghaiing: Give Sullivan a monopoly

10:35 Jan 27, 2026
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Oregon's Sailors' Boardinghouse Commission seemed completely uninterested in any enforcement activity other than ordering Larry Sullivan's competitors to leave the business. Naturally, those competitors fought back as best they could. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1906b.mysterious-billy-part2of2-551.html)
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