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...White was boasting that Mississippi had not had a lynching in 15 months. In Winona, Miss., in a jampacked courtroom in Montgomery County's white brick courthouse, Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels, 26-year-old Negroes, were pleading not guilty to a charge of murdering a crossroads country grocer during a robbery last December at nearby Duck Hill. One day last week these simultaneous events were the prolog of a bloody melodrama, peculiarly Southern...
...torch was turned on him and the smell of burned flesh floated through the woods. Again he screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess. He was with Townes, he sobbed, when Townes poked a shotgun through the grocery window, fired into the grocer's back. When his confession was delivered in sufficient detail, the lynchers fell back and a volley of bullets crashed into Bootjack McDaniels, 1937's lynching victim...
...strenuous efforts to substitute other brands for Del Monte, buying was cut to a hand-to-mouth basis to annoy California Packing as much as possible, and orders were placed through brokers so that California Packing had to pay a 4% commission anyway. 'This is not spite," said Grocer Parr. "This is business...
...shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer acceptance. And in 1915 when he was made president of American Sugar, Mr. Babst set out to persuade U. S. housewives to ask the grocer for Domino instead of plain sugar...
Crestfallen were two other huntsmen when the Forest rangers pronounced their scrawny trophies of the day to be merely wild hogs, with little if any boar strain in them. Real boars were credited next day to a Tennessee housewife, a Chattanooga grocer. When the footsore hunters went home from the hills at the end of their third & last day, rangers revealed to reporters that not one of the six animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian...