Showing posts with label scam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scam. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2008

Man Begs for Food with $83 In Pocket

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1920 Claims He's a House Cleaner — "He Sure Is," Says Cop. KANSAS CITY, Missouri. — Four pocketbooks and $83 were found on Ste...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Loading Up Chickens

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1920 Some twenty-five tons of real estate in the form of sand and gravel and masquerading as 30 cents a pound chicken almost got into the Ne...
Friday, July 6, 2007

Must Face His "Gold Brick"

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1915 Also Victims Who Claim to Have Been Fleeced PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 16. — E. A. Starkloff, an alleged "gold brick" king, recent...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Substitutes Mustard for Electricity

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1900 A street faker in Kenton, Kansas, had a thriving business selling electric belts until someone examined one of them. Then it was found ...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Man Profits by Limp Wrist, Claiming Injuries

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1915 Hand Would Fall Limp After Fall in Rail Car, Insurance Claim Following Minneapolis. — How an obedient wrist bone served as a means of l...
Sunday, June 3, 2007

Hired 'Wife' To Weep For Him

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1914 But Court Learns of Trick and Sentences Pickpocket New York, Jan. 22. — When, nearly a year ago, Samuel Berman was arraigned before Jud...
Friday, June 1, 2007

Worriers Mark Woman Victim

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Iowa, 1914 Des Moines, Jan. 15. — Professional "worriers" have marked Mrs. Lena M. Ellis, 827 West Fifth street. She has appealed ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Starts for Money But Never Returns

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California, 1917 A Mariposa street shoe store is short just one pair of $9 shoes and an attractive dark haired woman weighing about 170 poun...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

'Healers' Swindle Aged Norfolk Man

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1939 NORFOLK, Va., April 23.—(U.P.) Police Sunday night were seeking two negro men and a white woman "healer" who swindled a 100-y...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Co-Eds Swindled Out of Stockings

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1920 Woman Agent Collects Girls' Money -- Departs LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Kansas University sorority girls are holding the sack for the amount...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Con Men Selling Electric Money Making Machine

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1920 BOORS ARE NOT ALL DEAD; BUY MONEY MAKING MACHINE By United Press Leased Wire Milwaukee. -- Two men in jail here are said by the police ...
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Grocer Swindled by Small Boy

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San Antonio, Texas, 1906 ---------- SWINDLED BY BOY. Lad Worked on Groceryman's Sympathies and Got a Loaf of Bread. A small boy about se...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Bride Fools Many As Fake Heiress

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Girl-Wife's Acts Inspired By Famous Novel. Law Steps in When Winsome Fabricator Gets to "End of Her String." TWO RIVERS, Wis.,...