In honor of the last month of the Huntsville Times's print editions, join me on a journey through the early 1900s newspaper business, a bizarre stone "wedding cake" style house, and Jacob Emory Pierce, the founder of the Times and the root of an impressive number of local legends, scandals, and court cases.

NOTE: I found a new source and thus more insight into Pierce's potential pettiness after putting out the original episode; this added info has been edited into the episode and begins at the 11:50 mark.  The show is otherwise unchanged from its original posting.

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