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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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$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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Grandfather’s Good Deed

Published on July 29, 2015

Posted in: Money & Financial, Tidbits

Eight-year-old Edith Diane Brown was the luckiest girl on Earth back in October 1956. That’s when her family learned that she would be inheriting an $1.8 million.

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The Honest Man with an Evil Eye – Podcast #84

Published on July 10, 2015

Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Death and Murder, Money & Financial, Podcast

In 1935, Frank Greges stumbled across a wallet containing the stocks. Find out what really happened and how he killed a man simply by staring at him.

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Character Day Bank Holdup

Published on May 20, 2015

Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Money & Financial, Tidbits

Six students from the Santa Rosa Junior College found themselves in hot water in 1960. They dressed up in roaring ‘20’s clothes and decided to rob a bank...

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The Penny Covered Desk

Published on February 15, 2015

Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Money & Financial, Tidbits

Bank floor manager William H. Oglesbee had a very unusual desk. It was covered with more than 12,000 pennies using 77 tubes of cement.

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The Bowery’s Santa – Podcast #78

Published on December 12, 2014

Posted in: Holidays & Celebrations, Money & Financial, Podcast

Joe Bonavita went to the Bowery in 1946 to give away a big chunk of his hard-earned money to those less fortunate. The true story about an unusual Santa Claus.

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Dog Causes Minibike Accident

Published on March 18, 2014

Posted in: Animals & Pets, Law & Order, Money & Financial, Tidbits

In 1978, New Canaan, CT resident Charles Bach was awarded $100,000 for injuries sustained after a dog startled him while riding a motorbike.

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