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On Guard:<br /> Anti-tobacco trust nightriders’ terrorism forced Kentucky Governor Augustus Willson to call out the State Guard to protect dissenting farmers.In the early 1900s, small farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee took trust-busting literally

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