Unnamed Boarders at Beard Hotel

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1372
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Unnamed Boarders at Beard Hotel
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Unnamed Boarders at Beard Hotel
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Yes
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These are the men in Flags in the Dust who stay at the Beard Hotel; they come to Jefferson for various reasons: traveling salesmen, jurors from out of town, weather-stranded countrymen, even two "town young bloods" who keep a room as a place for gambling. Besides Byron Snopes, some - bachelors identified as "clerks, mechanics and such" - live there more permanently (104).