Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Customers had 0 credit & couldn’t borrow from the bank. They needed cash for doctor bills, to eat. My father gave loans on practically nothing

Drinking a quart of whiskey neutralizes the poison without intoxicating the patient

It is likewise commonly reported that spirits of turpentine applied plentifully to the wound will draw out the poison and effect a cure.

Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette, director of Western State Hospital, was one of Virginia’s leading voices in the social movement known as Eugenics.

All over the country poor men are buying that oleomargarine and they are buying it largely at the rich man’s butter prices.

In May of 1926, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill authorizing the establishment of a 521,000-acre Shenandoah National Park.