All posts tagged "train"
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15.1K1Crime and ScandalIn 1919, A Private Detective Nailed the Murderer of Lucina Broadwell
When Barre, Vt., police in 1919 first saw the naked body of Lucina Broadwell in a vacant lot, they immediately suspected her...
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12.1KConnecticutThe Legend of Deep River’s XYZ Bank Robber
The letters XYZ are chiseled into a small grave marker in a corner of a cemetery in Deep River, Conn. Underneath lies...
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9.9K2Crime and ScandalElmer McCurdy, Maine Plumber, Dumbest Outlaw, Traveling Corpse
On Oct. 11, 1911 an Oklahoma sheriff’s posse had Elmer McCurdy on the run. The Maine man – a plumber-turned-outlaw – had...
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17.0K1MaineThe Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Lumber Camps
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...
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14.0K1Business and LaborMichael Donlon, the Humble Irish Hero of Meriden
It was a lucky day for Malvina Gauthier and her daughter Delcina when Michael Donlon decided to leave behind his native Ireland...
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7.1K5Arts and LeisureKate Douglas Wiggin, 11, Charms Charles Dickens, 56
As a young girl growing up in the rural village of Hollis, Maine, Kate Douglas Wiggin desperately wanted to see Charles Dickens...
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