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Isadore Blumenfeld was born in 1900 in the Romanian shtetl of Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău County, to a Jewish family.

According to the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service documents, his parents emigrated to America in 1902 via the port of Duluth, Minnesota.

His father, a furrier, settled the family in Near North, Minneapolis.

During childhood, Isadore had to leave school and support his family by selling newspapers on Minneapolis's " Newspaper Row.

" At the time, the best selling locations had to be held by force against gangs of other boys.

Kid Cann would also tell stories of how he had made extra money picking up bus tokens and reselling them.

Enraged by the poverty of his family, he turned to running errands for the pimps and madams of Minneapolis's red light district.