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...called The Story of a Country Town. When publishers refused his book, Editor Howe printed it himself, a page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than 100.000 copies have been sold; a first edition is worth...
Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...Suddenly Evangelist Brookshire turned pale, toppled forward into the water. Quickly Electrician Dean dragged him up, stretched him out on the platform. An hour later, despite the efforts of a fire department crew with a resuscitator, Evangelist Brookshire was pronounced dead, of drowning during a heart attack...
...remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose pastime is bouncing a ball, whose dream is an automobile horn; a middle-aged prostitute turned evangelist who makes Dude her lawful pastime by buying him an automobile horn with automobile attached...
...dusty yard crawls with lechery. Lov lusts for his runaway Pearl. Ellie May for Lov, the lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother...