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Dateline 1914 — A crab that pinched your funny bone
In a column printed 70 years later in The Daily Herald, a long-time reader offered to identify the name of the paper’s favorite columnist, ”Crab of Big Level.” He was identified as Bostick Hansen Breland, who lived in the Big Level community of central Stone County. His sage commentary of life and times so enamored him with Walter and Eugene Wilkes, the sons of Herald founder George Wilkes, that they made monthly trips to Breland’s home to hear more of his wit and wisdom. One of Eugene’s favorite lines was one of Crab’s earliest: “You think I’m funny now? You should have known me before I died.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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