An Inside Job – Podcast #131 Published on January 25, 2020 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Money & Financial, Podcast The incredible story of how James Rufus Landis stole $160,000 in $20 bills from the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing on New Year's Eve of 1953.Click to Read More...
Soul Searching – Podcast #129 Published on November 22, 2019 Posted in: Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast Miner James Kidd made an incredibly unusual request in his will that would take more than 21 years for the courts to resolve.Click to Read More...
50,000 Books Given Away Published on October 5, 2019 Posted in: Miscellaneous, Money & Financial, Tidbits When the Brattle Book Shop was forced to move in 1964, it had to give away 50,000 books for free.Click to Read More...
Milk Bottle Shortage Published on September 21, 2019 Posted in: Forgotten History, Money & Financial, Tidbits On November 14, 1946, it was reported that there was a shortage of milk bottles in Asbury Park, New Jersey.Click to Read More...
The Coal Mountain Casanova – Podcast #120 Published on March 19, 2019 Posted in: Love & Marriage, Money & Financial, Podcast In 1952, Jesse Garrett had recently divorced and was in search of a new wife. He seemed like a catch and hundreds of women contacted him to let them know that they were interested. In the end, Jesse Garrett was financially ruined.Click to Read More...
6-Year-Old Goes on a Buying Spree Published on September 21, 2018 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1933, 6-year-old Bertha Deshefy of Yonkers % % went on a spending spree. In 4 hours, Bertha used her dad's bankroll to purchase $110 worth of candy and toys.Click to Read More...
Pennies Hoarded for Gold Published on August 14, 2018 Posted in: Money & Financial, Tidbits Residents of Amityville, NY hoarded pennies in 1902 so that they could melt them down to get the gold out of the coins.Click to Read More...
Self-Service Gasoline Published on July 26, 2018 Posted in: Money & Financial, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits Opposition to self-service gasoline stations was very high in the 1940s and '50s. Today, only New Jersey has a total ban on them.Click to Read More...
Le Mars Trilogy: Part 1 – T.M. Zink’s Library – Podcast #103 Published on June 10, 2017 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast TM Zink left his entire fortune for the establishment of a Womanless library. Find out the details of what really happened and who inherited his estate.Click to Read More...
Twilight Zone Chooses to Keep Rod Serling Published on May 21, 2017 Posted in: Entertainment, Money & Financial, Tidbits Can you imagine The Twilight Zone television series with Orson Welles as the host? It almost happened...Click to Read More...
Where There’s a Wilby, There’s a Way – Podcast #101 Published on March 27, 2017 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Fraud & Deception, Money & Financial, Podcast The story of Ralph M. Wilby is one of international intrigue, deception, financial trickery, and the obligatory beautiful woman...Click to Read More...
$20,000 in Ice Cream in Will Published on September 8, 2016 Posted in: Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Tidbits In 1937, Clementine Farr Duff willed $20,000 to the Washington Home for the Incurables to purchase ice cream.Click to Read More...
The Ice Cream Wars – Podcast #96 Published on August 4, 2016 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Money & Financial, Podcast Ice cream truck drivers have been beaten and robbed, their trucks smashed, burned, and bombed, and death threats have been issued against them.Click to Read More...
Brassiere Brigade – Podcast #94 Published on July 5, 2016 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Fraud & Deception, Money & Financial, Podcast The women who worked for Southern Bell in Miami back in 1950. Poorly paid, they figured out a unique way to smuggle money out of the coin counting room.Click to Read More...
He Wants His Alimony Back Published on November 10, 2015 Posted in: Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Money & Financial, Tidbits Howard Metz paid alimony for thirty years to a woman who would not divorce him. When she died, he claimed title to her estate. Did he get it?Click to Read More...