November 2022 issue contents - Feature
'Big Jim' Falcone was early Prohibition Era Sicilian underworld king.
By Thomas Hunt
"At the time of his April 1921 murder, James “Big Jim” Falcone was known as “king” of the vice-ridden “tenderloin” district in Youngstown, Ohio. It was about a quarter to ten, Thursday evening, April 28, when Falcone (or “Falconi”) stepped to the doorway of his business at 128 East Front Street, near the intersection with Walnut Street. He looked out across the B&O Railroad yards and the Mahoning River, winding a short distance away to the south and west and defining the lower boundary of downtown Youngstown..."
Book page count: Eleven pages, including two and a half pages of notes and three images.
Magazine page count: Five and a half pages, including one and a half pages of notes and three images.
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