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Town Topics and Gentle Humour From Monroe Society
Local column recalls two well known Monroe Black residents Jack and Lonnie, their quarrels, and Lonnie’s recent religious conversion at a colored church mourners bench. The piece weaves in Will Pethel’s dramatic mourner’s bench episode and a long tangent of local names, plus an advertisement for Doan's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Jesse D. Helms about relief from back pain and kidney trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Lonnie
Monroe
Eberybody
Isek
Jeremiah Hammer
Will Pethel
Mortmer
Will
Pethels
Peshel
Down's
America
Jesse D. Helms
Pine Street
Doan
Jan
Helms
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N