'Healers' Swindle Aged Norfolk Man

1939

NORFOLK, Va., April 23.—(U.P.) Police Sunday night were seeking two negro men and a white woman "healer" who swindled a 100-year-old negro out of $1000 life savings by promising to cure his many ills with a "money poultice."

Charles Gandy, the victim, said they made a huge poultice from the bills, put it in a sheet and applied it to his side. Later, when no improvement came, he opened the sheet to find only paper.

Old Anvil Discovered By Nevada Prospector

1939

An anvil, manufactured in England in the year 1798, was discovered by George Chubey, Nevada prospector, while examining old prospect holes along the strike of a vein on the Fallini property on Eden Creek, the Goldfield News reports.

Chubey was attracted to the anvil by its appearance and found the date stamped into the article. Nye county residents were reported wondering how the anvil came to its resting place in the lonely Nevada hills.

—Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, April 24, 1939, page 4.