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That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: White Blood for Black | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

But the cream machine is no novelty in England where nearly a quarter of a million housewives use it. Invented by a Briton named Major A. R. Bannister, it arrived in the U. S. by way of Canada where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cream Machine | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

No one knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circuit Riders | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lineman | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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