Word: earp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't only sentiment that kept the price up: there was also Constable Everett Earp (second cousin to Gunman Wyatt Earp, famed frontier marshal), who owns the place and keeps his real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
Despite a few unpleasant remarks from the G.O.P. side, the bill seemed sure to pass the House; the Senate still had to act. Meanwhile, a visitor could get to see the inside by buying a souvenir postcard off Everett Earp; if he bought more than 50? worth Earp would show him the room where Harry S. Truman was born...
...They've been doing a lot of talking about signs and markers but I got tired of waiting on them and went ahead myself," Earp explained to reporters. "I've got Ernie Shaffer-he's my carpenter-building the sign right now. He's had a little trouble getting a piece of plyboard for the middle-that's hard stuff to find nowadays-but he should be done...
Constable Earp, who is a second cousin of Arizona's famed Wyatt Earp,* is going to fix up the house with paint and a new roof, and put a place in the back of the lot for his real-estate office. "I plan some little things like picture cards and a booklet on Wyatt Earp and the family," he said, "and if someone buys 50? worth I'll show him the Truman room free...
While Constable Earp did his bit, the Lamar City Council and Chamber of Commerce continued to search for someone to erect two neon signs at the city limits. Said Businessman Gordon Boyer...