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Moonshiners and bootleggers

by Minden Press-Herald
Today’s Echo of Our Past concerns one of the more colorful traditions of the Minden and Webster Parish area, bootlegging or moonshining. Now if you have knowledge that some of your ancestors participated in this age-old practice, don’t fear that
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2 comments

Lauren Feb 1, 2022 - 4:11 pm

Was the story about the Germantown resident that was arrested three times in a local paper? If so, what paper and issue? I would like to include the story in an exhibit about Prohibition for my museum.

Glenda Ladd Jul 1, 2022 - 8:20 am

I’m trying to find an article about my grandfather and great father. They were arrested in Minden sometime during the 1930s. William Tims was a boxer known as the white fox and the story goes there was a white fox on the court house steps.

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