Word: mcfaul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of pigs' pie was originally broadcast to various newspapers by the arch-Republican Boston Herald. The Boston Herald received it from Lawrence Thomas Smyth, of the Bangor, Me. Daily News, who got it from John McFaul, an oldtime News correspondent in Calais, Me., who got it from a "farmer over in Perry." Said Newshawk Smyth in Bangor...
...yarn came in from McFaul it was written in a kind of wooden style. So I polished it up a bit before sending it along to the Boston Herald. Of course, if I was writing for the New York Sun, I'd have polished it up a bit more. ... As a matter of fact the way the story came through it said six kinds of pie, but I jacked it up to eight. I figured the story must be pretty near right. There isn't anybody in Washington County [_i. e., 'Quoddy, Perry, Calais] with enough brains...