Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Chief Askew's Diary: April 22, 1930

Chief Askew's Diary: April 22, 1930

Another sort of Easter drama unfolds at the First Methodist Church

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There wasn’t much going on in Chief Askew’s line today. “Fair and cooler today, everything getting back to normal,” he wrote, referencing the uproar of the weekend because of a murder and an assailant on the run. On Easter Sunday morning, another sort of drama was going on at the First Methodist Church.

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