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was what is now Clay street. \gMooresville, like most pioneer towns, was disorderly. All three ofthe taverns sold whiskey, as did also, since such was the custom then, the four stores. Moreover, Harris Bray,{ who lived on what is now the T. E. Lawrence farm, had a distillery with ; a capacity of thirty gallons a day. So it is no wonder that the town, although its population was but three hundred, already had a substantial jail; and perhaps the same thing explains why the stranger rode past the Jackson and the Blankenship taverns, j and put up at Cox's. Feeling himself | about to be overtaken by a dangerous : illness, he wanted to get as far as ! possible from the center of town— j from the noisy talk and laughter, j and drunken shouts of those who,S especially at night, frequented the j square. At any rate, Cox's was his choice, and the next morning he was reported to. have malarial fever.
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Mooresville Monitor
Mooresville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1916
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