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Corsicana Sheriff Recalls Roaring 20s Oil Boom
In Corsicana Texas the 1920s oil boom swelled Navarro County to about 69 000 people. Sheriff Walter Hayes now 93 recalls patrolling with a roving jail in a Chevrolet cage and facing bootleggers and fights in Tuckertown. He describes carrying a .45 Winchester and a sawed off shotgun as deputy duty intensified.
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Alonzo Monk
First Methodist Church
Navarre County
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Prohibition
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Tuckertown
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