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Max "Boo Boo" Hoff
Max "Boo Boo" Hoff was born in 1892 in South Philadelphia, a son of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants. After quitting school, Boo Boo worked for several years in a cigar store where the service also included gambling.
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Remembering Max "Boo Boo" Hoff
By Parry Desmond Boxing Played A Big Role Although he used his involvement in boxing as a front for his other activities, boxing played an important role in Boo Boo's life.
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Trenton 'Phantom' Gains Verdict Over Local Italian for Third Straight Time
Camden Courier Post - September 19, 1928 By TOM RYAN Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a boxing shot at the Convention Hall , Vincent Forgione, of Philadelphia.
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Gorman Meets Test Against Joe Bashara
Hard-Hitting Middleweights Meet in Prelim to Forgione-McGorgary Bout Tuesday Successful so far in a comeback campaign launched recently, Joe Bashara, hard-hitting middleweight from Baltimore, will stack up against a tough customer in one of the preliminary bouts at the all-star show arranged by the Matthew Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars , at the Camden Convention Hall next Tuesday.
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Man Who Sup'lied Racketeers' Guns Brought to Court
Philadelphia, Sept 6—Edward S. Goldberg, proprietor of the Military Sales company, believed to have been the man who supplied Philadelphia gangsters with machine guns and bullet proof vests today faced arraignment before Magistrate E.J. Pennock on perjury charges as a result of the latest development in the inquiry into the underworld here.