Sequel to Egg Nog Sparks Letter From Boone Reader
A Boone NC reader signs as Mrs B D Clawson and asks the editor to publish a long critique of Mr Greene. The letter recounts a biased family history, laments political figures, and defends prohibition while arguing for a workable solution to the era’s mood.
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Mr. Greene
Joseph Brown
L. A. Greene
Mr Greene
Franklin D
Congress
Germany
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin
Grover
Greene
Squirt Gun Bombardment at Banner Elk Discussed
Shepherd M. Dugger defends his Banner Elk history in The War Trails of Blue Ridge tale. He cites Rev. Pell organizing the Banner Elk Presbyterian Church and asserts local pioneers and elders shaped the town, despite Mrs. John Barlow of Banner Elk denying the squirt-gun origin story in a 1933 Citizen defense.
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Watauga Democrat
Blue Ridge
Banner Elk
Sam Jones
John Barlow
People’s Forum
Asheville
R. P. Pell
Presbyterian Church
North Carolina
Colege
O R. P. Pell
Pell
Hoyle
Isaac N. Banner
D. Alfonzo Brewer
Judge Webb
Isaac
Alfonzo
Phobia Brewer
W. B. Brewer
R. O. Banner
Sidney Perry
Eugene Eller
Newland
N. C
Shepherd M. Dugger
Policemen’s Ear Catches Robbers’ “Toot Sweet” Crime
In Chicago Lieutenant Richard Lawler uses a camera car to record sounds during a robbery attempt. A witness describes a bizarre “queer toot” from a car. Three men are found in the vehicle and arrested after Lawler orders them to “toot your horn.”
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Chicago
Richard Lawler
Birthday surprise for Mrs. D. W. Haga in Montezuma
Mrs. D. W. Haga of Montezuma awoke to a birthday surprise Sunday morning when her grandchildren Bobby Gene and Margaret Evelyn Ray brought in two cake baskets and sang Happy Birthday to You as Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ray entered.
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D. W. Haga
Montezuma
Bobby Gene
Margaret Evelyn Ray
Old Man Sunshine
Ed Ray
Honest minds seek honest things says Fletcher
A fragment notes a quote about virtue and pleasure, contrasting wicked mirth with sincere contentment and implying a character named Fletcher endorses the view.
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B. D. Clawson
Boone, N. C
Daniel. Boone
Lower Carolina
Carolina
Carolina People
New Bargains Smitheys
F. D Forrester & CO
Tyc
Northfield
Swift
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