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Title	Al Capone
Alternative Title	Capone, Al
Genre	Legend -- People -- Famous People
Description	Barbara Vlahos's transcribed interview of Missy Smith's about three different stories. The first story is about Al Capone. According to Smith, Capone had a house in Skylar County, Illinois, and he ran liquor through there as a bootlegger. The second story is about a house in Skyler County, Illinois, that was connected to the underground railroad. The third story is about a girl who found a thumb in a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew.
Informant	Smith, Missy
Collector	Vlahos, Barbara
Date of Original	1993-04-19
Contextual Information	Though there are three stories included here, the accounts about Al Capone's house is the pirmary listed.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Skyler County -- Frederick -- 1993
Subject	Criminals Hiding Underground railroad Illinois Bread & soup lines Prohibition
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-05-19
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-Al Capone004

Al Capone

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