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...Thomason, U. S. Prohibition officer for Pottawatomie county, veteran chaser of 'leggers among the Osage Indians, headed the procession that marched upon the Harris farm. With him were three "friends," not regular agents but deputized for this raid. They fingered their gun triggers menacingly. Farmer Harris, mistaking them for bandits, lifted his shotgun down from behind the stove, prepared to defend his home. One of the unofficial raiders was snooping under a chicken coop for a still when he caught sight of Harris and Lowery. He pulled the trigger on his revolver. Harris dropped. Lowery started to run. Shots...
...liquor was found on the Harris farm. Raider Thomason had no search warrant to look...
Princeton University Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, missionary. LL.D. John Pierpont Morgan, banker LL.D. James Henry Brested, orientalist Litt.D. Evarts Ambrose Graham, surgeon D.Sc. William Francis Magie, physicist D.Sc. Walter Johannes Damrosch, musician. Mus.D...
...Samuel Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...
...Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...