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Reputation and Jail Tales in a Southern Town
The piece recalls a colonel testing a suspect at a post office, a jail visit at Selma, and a hog theft charge, revealing tensions of trust and mistaken identity. It shifts to a justice Bristol scene with warrants, then to comedian Guzy Heege’s barnstorming tale, and ends with notes on peaches and a Russian country dance described in period voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurnel Thomas
de Plintashun
Selma
Kaynel
D Pusson
Gue
Pusson
Kurnel
Bristol
Mose Henderson
Daviett
Jedze
Moses
Sini
Sali
Abraham
Menin
Gux Heege
Wille
Heege
Hee
Chicago
Russia
New York Ledger