Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgements and Contributors 11
Part I Public Concerns and Policies
Tobacco Warehouse Thieves 13
Slot Machine and Punch Boards 14
Whiskey Raids 14
A Major Nuisance Stuck in "Committee" 16
Wicked Smallpox and die Pesthouse 17
A Bad Impression 18
No, No and More No's 19
Epidemic of Spanish Flu 19
No Black Police Officers 19
Difficulties and Dangers for Salem 20
The "Lot" Determined Who Should Marry Whom 21
Part II Crimes and Punishments
Guilty of First-Degree "Muddy Creek" Murder 25
The Ball Went Through His Heart 28
They Poisoned Their Daughters 28
Beaten into Unconsciousness and Critically Injured 29
The Frank Snipes Gang Successors 31
Libby Holman, Torch Singer, Accused of Murdering Millionaire Husband 32
Rape, Posse, Gunfire 36
The Drop Fell at 12:55-Broke His Neck 38
State Prison Escapee Recaptured after Twenty Years 40
Mob Storms Jail 41
Part III Now You Know
He Claimed He Gould Heal Anything-For a Price 45
Not in My Neighborhood 47
Lust for Fashionable Apparel 47
The Dreaded Invaders Arrived 49
Alderman "Blasted" Mayor 50
"Other Such Business" 51
Racially Tense Winston-Salem 53
At the Zinzendorf Hotel 54
Moravians in Salem "Going against Tradition" 56
Anything Wicked "Goes" for a News Snippet 60
He Said, She Said 64
"I Don't Want a Sterilize Operation" 69
Part IV Believe It or Not
Board of Censors of Public Amusements 71
Salem Tavern-The Place to Drink, Argue, Duel 74
Obey Our Rules… Or Else 76
$10,000 in Currency Burned 78
Wickedly Heavy and Dirty Mill Work 78
Repeated Protests 80
No Unions! 82
Winston Officers Raid Distilleries 82
"They Take All the Pie" 83
Big Hudson Six Turns Over Three Times 84
Somebody Could Get Killed! 85
Part V Straight from the Horse's Mouth
A Deplorable State of Affairs 87
Hand Over Your Money, or Else! 88
Sex in the Twin City 89
Joshua Coin-Blessing or Curse? 91
Suffering in Forsyth County-No Food, No Crops, No Money 92
The Greatest Catastrophe 95
"All We Ask Is to Be Let Alone"-Jefferson Davis 96
Fire Bugs 98
Racist Slogans and Ugly Epithets 99
Dispute Over Who Should Tax Tobacco 99
Infamous, Cowardly and Dastardly Attack 100
Cursing and Swearing on the Streets 101
Part VI On the Lighter Side
First Court Case of Its Kind-The Butler Did It! 103
He Squealed on Daddy's Whiskey Stash 104
Ban the Wicked Circus? 105
Cigars and Tobacco Okay, but No Cigarettes on the Sabbath! 106
Circus Wagons Do Damage 107
Not on Sunday 107
Who Stole the $450? 108
It Was Just a Baseball Game! 108
How Dare You? 110
Five-Dollar Fines for Not Using "Soft Paper" 111
Relatives Need Not Apply 111
Wicked Arithmetic 111
Ordinances: Fire, Censorship and Whistling 112
Obey This Ordinance or Pay the Fine 113
No Weeds, Spitting, Loitering or Garbage in the Street 113
Winston Court Has Difficult Case 113
Thin, Puny and Lethargic 114
He Stole a Suitcase and Wore the Clothes 115
Strong Opposition to Sunday Movies 116
Halloween Celebration Canceled, but Dog Races Ok 116
Appendix. Recipes Probably Served in Old Winston and Old Salem 117
Bibliography 123
About the Author 127
