Making money at home
Article Abstract:
In the early 18th century Mary Peck, a Rehoboth, MA, housewife, discovered she could make bogus five-pound notes by impressing them on wet muslin and the applying them to blank paper. Her counterfeiting went on for years before she was discovered. She was acquitted for lack of evidence at her trial.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1992
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The hungry hero
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Egg merchant Louis Bouchard of Fall River, MA, became a hero when he discovered a package lying on the town trolley tracks on Oct 23, 1894. Believing the contents to be sausages, he ate them. It turned out to be dynamite intended to blow up the trolley.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1993
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The day it rained fish
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Fish fell from the sky in Olneyville, RI, on May 15, 1900. The most likely cause of the fish storm was a tornado that may have sucked fish from lakes and ponds and dropped them over the land.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1995
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