Hogwallow Humor From A Union County Sketches
John Beasley packs a 1916 county vignette full of local color with tall tales, quips, and oddball characters. Names like Bill Cole Jimmie Morrow Billy McCauley and Doc Secrest appear amid playful captions and rural misadventures across Oak Ridge Monroe and Gander Creek, ending with a grim wartime relief notice.
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John Beasley
Bill Cole
White House
Jimmie Morrow
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Billy McCauley
Union County
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Unionite
Windsor Street
Morehead Stack
Oak Ridge
Bill Stack
Asphalt Avenue
Billy Renton
Grier Robinson
Charle Heltas
Doc. Secrest
Frank Armfeld
Doc
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Flow
Squire
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
George Bingham
E. L. Adame
Calfiles
Excelsior
Ellick Hellwanger
Gondola Henstep
Christopher Columbus
Wild Onion
Sap Sprachen
Columbus
Musket Ridge
Dock Hocka
Jefferson Hocks
Frisby Hancock
Rye Straw
Sim ‘Flinders
Hogwallow Improvement Society
Luke Mathewela
Gimlet Creek
Luke
Tobe Moseley
Gander Creek
Sidney Hocks
Depuy
Fritzie Allsop
Atlas Peck
Fit Smith
Michael Walsh
Los Angeles
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Santa Barbara Forest Reserve
Walsh
Swan
Denver
Colo
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
U. S. Geological Survey
Birmingham Age-Herald
Monroe Drug Company
Whitmans
J. C. Smith Co
the Quality Corner
Morning Glory
Wotan
Lowney’s Fine Chocolates
Elizabeth
Sunflower
J. C. Smith Company