Tillman on the Run The Liquor Problem in South Carolina
A Washington Post correspondence from Columbia outlines Senator Tillman’s waning support as South Carolina’s dispensary system faces reform and graft allegations. It traces the 1892-96 history, the state board’s powers, corruption rumors, and Tillman’s shifting stance amid county prohibition votes and looming re election pressures.
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Ira EB
Bennety
Washington Post
Columbia
S. C
Benjamin Ho ‘Fillman
Ufe
Ben Tillman
South Carolina
Tillman
Burt
DIL
Olepehaary
System Tt Ils
Tilman
John Gary Evans
News- Page 1
Athens
Gale
Tillmanites
Supreme Court of the United States
State Board of Control
County Boards of Control
United States Supreme Court
United States
State Board
Tirzah
Cincinnati
Batesburg
John Hell Towill
Board of Control
Gov. Heyward
Batesville
Towill
Charleston News and Courier
Mr. Towill
Uquor
Marion
O& mMenias
United States Senate
LICENSED TO MARRY Partnerships and Names in Notice
Notices list marriages and deaths with names and locations in Maryland and Washington area. Several couples and relatives are named with dates in 1905 1906 including Buck Gallagher Noyes Oppermann Shedd, funeral notices and marriages. Specific houses and church references appear along with ages and addresses.
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St Stephen's Church
Gallagher
No. Bil
M Gallagher
J. Stephen's Church
J. Mrgiltoon
Noyes
Maryland
William M_ Galt
Eliza Shedd
Health Office Record From September Health Notes
Health office records list multiple patients with ages and addresses including Harlot L Bowers 1123 G St NW B1 years Arthur B Carroll 26 Leonard Campher 539 Lost EW 8 months Virgin Gilbert Wesn Asyl Hemp 72 Avceew Hil van Furedorf Stable 80 Joshua Johnson Freedmen Hospital 65 Wale F Mills 2849 Sherman Ave 2 days Charlotte HP Moran 1929 Th St NW BLFH Maida Robinson 171d Brainard St 83 years Emergency Hospital 20 years
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Harlot L. Bowers
G St Nw
Arthur B Carroll
A. North Ct
Leonard Campher
Virgin
Notice of Marriage and Death Inserts in The Washington Post
A legal notice states that marriage and death insertions in The Washington Post may be published in several morning newspapers upon request at no extra charge. Newspapers listed include The New York Times, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record-Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Republic, Syracuse Post Standard, St Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Washington Post
NEW York Times
Poston
Glola Bliffalo Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Fittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
Louis Republic
Syracuse Post-Standard
ST Paul Pioneer Press
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Flain Dealer
Grand Army chieftain outlines pension plan import
Corp James A. Tanner home. He discussed G A R aims to pass two new civil war pensions via Congress. Surviving veterans with ninety days service would receive 12 dollars monthly, and existing pensions would rise by the same amount. National G A R HQ to be in Fendall Building. Col Tweedale named adjutant general. Col Bakewell national patriot of schools. Department of Potomac to set reception date.
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Grand Army
Corp
James A. Tanner
Denver
Congress
Fendall Building
City Hall
John Tweedale
Col
A. C. Bakewell
New York
National Patriarch of Schools
Tanker
Department of the Potomac
Corp. Tanner
Review of Punch Sdale M D on Negro Life in Novel
Galveston News critiques a contemporary novel for its depiction of Afro-American life. It argues the author is a Southerner or Black writer capable of authentic dialect and manners, notes scenes of slums and a grand ball as evidence, and lists format details including cloth binding, 434 pages, price and publisher locations in New York and Washington.
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Galveston News
Richmond
Chandler Predicted Plan To Thwart President Roosevelt
Former New Hampshire Senator William E. Chandler argues Congress will not pass any measure supporting President Roosevelt’s railroad reform. He claims rail interests will block the plan, citing letters from 1905 detailing opposition, fears of federal overreach, and the influence of figures like Samuel Spencer and J Pierpont Morgan. Chandler warns ministers, lawyers, and editors align with rail interests, and urges public support to withstand pressure from powerful railroad interests.
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New Hampshire
William E. Chandler
Roosevelt
Chandler
Edward A. Moseley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mr. Chandler
Concord
N. H
Senator Cockrell
Post
Washington Post
Jim Crowers
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
South
E. B. Pike
Spencer
Attedt
Severnad
Court of Review
House
Senate
Elkins
Esch-Townsend
Congress
Washington
Lincoln
Grant
Garfield
McKinley
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ripley explains rates before Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago September testimony showed opposition to rail rates on live stock and dressed beef. President B. H. Ripley of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad presented figures arguing dressed beef should bear a 360 percent higher charge than livestock due to cost structures, while asserting the railroad loses money on each car of dressed beef hauled from Kansas City to Chicago.
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Chicago
Sept. By
Marlana Western Railroad
Mission Tesday
BH. B. Lipley
Atchiron
Topalen
Hante Fe
Missouri River
Kansan City
Ripley
Kansas City
Bank Theft Plot Forges Check With Imitated Teller Signature
A detailed account of a bank theft plot where thieves forged a certified check from Hanover Bank by imitating Paying Teller Byrnes and using a forged Pearl & Co. imprint. The scheme relied on stamping and handwriting mimicry, with the forged check passed to a loan clerk who trusted the signature and released securities. The plan hinged on timing and the banks routine rate calls, culminating in a near capture at the envelope handoff.
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Hanover Bank
Byrnes
New York
Pearl & Co
Dyer Pearl
Hanover Tank
Uncle Sam
Mr. Byrne
City Bank
Pinkertons
Vanderlip
Wall Street
Pickertons
National City Bank
Bank swindle tale and ocean liner movements
A bank fraud narrative describes a sophisticated check swindle split between Pearl & Co. and the so called Pinkertons, with a bank official denying suspicion and a claim that the National City Bank would reimburse securities. The report then shifts to maritime notes detailing arrivals and sailings of several ocean liners from Europe to New York and other ports.
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Benjamin R. Tellman
Samuel Ho Bucen
Mollie Hall
Oxcar Tappan
Mary A. Hil
Aye B. Palagrove
Alma
Xoernarn
John G. Whiven
Anois I Prica
Baj- Amer
Frederis& Kloss
Celesce Murphy
Charles County
Dattare
Georgia Manocmi
Spader Guixilalms
Pugnese Nicolfia
Health Office Record
Undertakers
W. R. Speare
Sureet
N. W. Trerythng
Phusnes
J. William Lee
Pennsylvania Ave. Nw
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Fourteenth Street
John R. Wright Co
Aertioy Lee
Tanthwt
Open Cay
George P. Zurhorst
East Capitol
hanHive
Corporal Tanner
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