Word: dogan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after he had been summoned to the 200-acre Decker farm by Sharecropper Wiggins. Said Sheriff Dogan...
...When Night Descends Edgar Calmer tells what happens when hard-drinking old Tom Dogan, at the end of a hot August day, comes home with $52.50 he has won on a raffle ticket. Since the Dogans have been living on $9.25 a month, this windfall all but tips them off the deep...