Joe Brooks Told to Stay Out of Movies, Dance Halls for Two Years, Or Go on the Roads, Nov. 25, 1924

Stay Out of Movies or Go to the Roads

Asheville, Nov. 24—“Six months on the county roads if you enter a motion picture house or public dance hall during the next two years,” was the sentence received by Joe Brooks of Biltmore in Police Court today when convicted on the charge of insulting a young woman in a local theater. In addition to the suspended sentence, he was fined $50 and costs.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 25, 1924

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