Mary Gain ~ Queen of Duluth's Underworld

Image: Zenith City Press

When madam Mary Gain took the stand on 20 November 1913, Zenith City sat riveted. After thirteen years of dramatic arrests and raids on her various “houses of ill fame,” reports of drunken debauchery, violence and flippant retorts to the authorities, the Queen of Duluth’s Underworld would finally tell all.

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[Pictured Left] Duluth’s “Tenderloin” district in 1905. The indicator “FB” on insurance maps meant “Female Boarding Shanty,” code for bordello.