South Carolina Dispensary
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south-carolina-dispensary-246-7985175
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South Carolina Dispensary
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The South Carolina Dispensary system was a state-run monopoly on liquor sales in the United States state of South Carolina which operated from 1893 to 1907 statewide and until 1916 in some counties. The system was the brainchild of Governor Benjamin Tillman, a farmer from Edgefield known as "Pitchfork Ben," who served as governor from 1890 to 1894 and as a U.S. Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. This experiment had never before been tried at the state level, and proved to be the last tim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Dispensary
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2023-08-11T22:15:17Z
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