Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Episode 8: Shirley Temple Is Missing

Episode 8: Shirley Temple Is Missing

In which Missy, Grace, the Temples and John Griffith board the train, along with a fellow traveler

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Friday, October 11, 1935

CHAPTER 19

Los Angeles

Joan Roswell scanned Friday’s headlines in the Standard’s morning edition as she loitered between the lobby of Los Angeles’s Central Terminal and the platforms serving the departing trains. Joan was desperate for a real story, one that would give her some credibility with her boss, so she’d taken his advice a…

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