All posts tagged "political scandal"

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  Business and Labor

  Maine’s Duchess of Dix Island and The Rise and Fall of The Great Granite Ring

  The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...

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  Crime and Scandal

  Rhode Island’s Sprague-Conkling Affair (or the 1879 Episode at Narragansett)

  The Sprague-Conkling affair started on a pleasant day in August of 1879 at Narragansett Pier, a fashionable resort, in Rhode Island. The...