Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with much interest, in your issue of May 30, the item regarding the Cash-Shannon duel...
...wondering from whom you got the information. It was the most famous duel of the time and really ended dueling. It was also the last straw that broke the camel's back and caused my father to leave South Carolina where Col. Shannon was one of the foremost men in his community...
TIME'S sources for its Cash-Shannon account: pamphlets, letters and memoranda by kin of the principals; old newspaper clippings, local investigation...
...mailing you under separate cover a pamphlet. "The Cash-Shannon Duel." After reading the fair account of their duel in your issue of May 30 I thought you might be interested in it. . . . Col. Cash was my father...
...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...