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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Kathryn Smith

A bite-size taste of history each day based on the diaries of ordinary people of the 1920s-1940s, plus book reviews, economic commentary, and an occasional vintage cocktail recipe to wash it all down.

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Myra Jackson's Diary: June 26, 1932

They go to preaching; senators castigate Hoover for failing to support jobless measure

As I have pointed out before, Myra and her family do not seem to have been regular church-goers. Today, however, she noted they “went to preaching in mo...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: June 25, 1933

Cold cereals, including new Grape-Nuts Flakes, pitched to kids and adults

Myra didn’t write in her diary today. Maybe she was too hot, as the mercury remained stuck in the mid-90s.

6 days ago
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Myra Jackson's Diary:

Heat wave blasts the South; newspapers are full of cooling advice

Myra’s husband Sid and son James went to Montgomery today, a Friday. “Ho as blazes,” she commented. She wasn’t kidding; the National Weather Report for that day gave the hig...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: June 23, 1932

‘29 years old today,” Myra wrote, and that’s all she had to say about her birthday.

In celebration, for all my readers, I am posting a collection of birthday cards from the 1930s. But, as always, I ask you to become a paid subscriber if yo...

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Myra Jackson's Diary: June 22, 1932

Alabama college girl wins fame penning a novel that was made into a film

Myra did not write in her diary today — I expect because it was too hot — but maybe not as hot as it was at a Montgomery movie theatre, where a film starring Sylvia S...

9 days ago
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    Author of biographies, history mystery series and two books on Prohibition, "Baptists and Bootleggers" and "Methodists and Moonshiners," both with cocktail recipes.

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