Whiskey Insurrection and the Western Pennsylvania Rebellion
The 1794 Whiskey Insurrection saw western Pennsylvania and nearby border counties oppose excise taxes. States divided as Virginia and Maryland authorities prepared troops under Governor Lee and General Morgan. President Washington led a federal force to suppress the revolt, with leaders like Light Horse Harry Lee and connections to Robert E. Lee.
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Congress
Penns
Pittsburg
Cew
Border
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Morgontown
Edward Smith
Chester
Covington
Richmond
Morcantown
Randolph
Harrison
Mortown
Henry Lee
Pennsylvanis
Commonwealth
United States
Morgantown
Benjamin Wiltson
Leo
Clerksboro
John Haxmond
Counin
Hielir
Monongalia
Daniel Morgan
Cumberland
Braddock Road
Harry
Robert E. Lee
US Golf Association adopts prize rule amendments
The executive committee of the United States Golf Association votes to strike out the rule requiring an amateur who wins a prize to receive a substitute award and states the score alone should entitle the amateur to a prize. It also adds a new forfeiture clause for players who quit during match play rounds. A separate note describes a colony of aesthetic dancers forming near Lake Eudora with Miss Portia Sweet planning to establish training and courses in Greek dance, barefoot options, horseback riding, and sports.
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The
United States Golf Association
Tas
Lake
Eudora
Soc
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Massachusetts
Hiss Portia Sweet
Denver
Miss Sweet
Well Dwell Death and Matrimonial Broker Scandal
Arkansas tale recounts Mrs. Mary Austin clinging to a rope in a water-filled well for two hours to save her dead baby after it fell in through a rusty cover. She was restrained at home, deranged, as the tragedy unfolded. In New York, a matrimonial broker tied to real estate deals faced conviction for soliciting a bonus from clients and maintaining a long list of would be spouses, with oddball ledgers and “goomidas” records.
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Arone
New York
Maynus
Avenue
Podszus
Ron
Lockhart
Chauncer
M. Depew
West Fiffourth
Grant
Grand Central Nation
Depew
Joseph Garibaldi
Justice Breschi
Poditus
Cupid
Seatrimonial
Jask Edwards
West Forty-eighth Street
Waitman
Lockbert
Edwards
Harry Bannister
Daly Avenue
Bronix
Commission Chosen to Study Drunkards in Maryland
Governor Goldsborough names a commission to study habitual drunkenness and report on establishing a special institution. The plan favors isolating offenders at the house of correction and testing open-air work to curb appetite, replacing fines or jail with treatment and reform. Members include Dr Nathan R Gorter Raymond Kennetr George R McCleary Charles R Schirm and J Frank Supplee Jr.
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Baltimore
Goldsborough
Sonse of Correction
Nathan R. Gorter
Raymond Kennetr
Evening Sun
George R. McCleary
Friendly Inn
Charles R. Schirm
J. Frank Supplee
Heavy trucks carry cash through Wall Street in bank transfer
On a Saturday afternoon in New York the district saw heavily laden trucks moved through Wall Street manned by armed detectives and guarded by police. The Convoy carried about 135000 dollars belonging to the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, migrating from its old Wall Street quarters at 50 Wall Street to a new Nassau Street location at 20 Nassau Street, previously Fourth National Bank space.
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New York
Wall Street
National Bank
Nassau Street
Fourth National Bank
Bethany College Forms No Tobacco League of America
May 1 Bethany college town forms a nationwide No Tobacco League of America after organizing a ragtime suppression league. Prof A P Finley of Bethany college faculty founded the group intended to spread to cities and towns with camps, including a May 2 gathering at Wellsburg to organize a local camp. The league aims to wage war on tobacco use and production.
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Bethany
Coll
No-Tobacco League of America
A. P. Finley
Bethany College
Wellsburg
Supreme Court halts B and O rate hike in mandamus order
The state supreme court of appeals granted a writ of mandamus restraining the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from raising passenger rates by more than two cents per mile. The railroad had announced a rate increase, arguing the public service commission lacked jurisdiction. The writ is returnable May 1.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Public Service Commission
Supreme Court
Hiccoughs Five Months Hold Captain Brooks in Cast
Cortlandt Brooks, captain of 2 lighter, from Greenport Long Island, has suffered hiccoughs for five months since Thanksgiving. He weighs 180 pounds earlier but has lost 45, now a shell of his former self. Doctors suspect tuberculosis of the spine and have placed him in a rigid plaster cast at Brooklum Hospital. He is expected to return home briefly, then to hospital for a new cast, with hope of cure if he remains immobilized.
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Ierday
Morgantown
Clarksburg
Lula Haymond
Sburg
Pennsylvania
Stringer
M. Stiilwell
George Jackson
Lee
Washington
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
Bedford
Pittsburg
New York
Cortlandt Brooks
2 Lighter
Greenport
L. I
Brooks
Brooklum Hospital
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James Wood
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Bannister
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Hanmister
House of Correction
State Supreme Court
Baltimore and Ohio
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