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10. Paper Cities
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All these ads
make patently false claim, particularly when referring to railway lines.
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Of all the "Paper Cities" with
their
outrageously false claims, Moberly was surely the most blatant
boom-town swindle in the Southwest Corner. It is the only example that
resulterd in a conviction for fraud.
http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/moberly/
The scheme was so well known at the time that several unrelated news
items joked about it...
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Optimism ruled the day...
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