OLD NEWS: Maid shows pushy preacher the door in Bernie Babcock’s historic ‘Billy of Arkansas’
March 13, 2023 at 2:16 a.m.
by
Celia Storey
This Feb. 10, 1922, Arkansas Democrat house ad urges proud Arkansans to subscribe to read the nationally famous Bernie Babcock’s home-grown love story. (Democrat-Gazette archives)
When we left Bernice Babcock's 1914 temperance love story "Billy of Arkansas" on March 6 (arkansasonline.com/313series), we were standing in the foyer of a fine Little Rock home with two high-toned elderly ladies and an angry evangelist from Texas who expected to marry one of them.
