Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland Quotes

“Anna Schrader was another of the women who came to Portland during the Girl Rush, arriving in 1910. Census records indicate she was married at the age of eighteen, presumably in Minnesota, where she was born and raised. She became a gadfly for the local Portland police and provided them with a great deal of useful information regarding bootlegging during Prohibition. This was possible because of her affair with police lieutenant William Breuning, who had gotten her the job of "private detective.”
― Theresa Griffin Kennedy, Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign

“In 1905, more than 1,700 young women made Portland their home. That trickle soon became a flood, and by 1907 more than 7,000 women a year were coming to Portland look for new lives.”
― Theresa Griffin Kennedy, Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland: Sex, Vice Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign