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The Gold Machine and the Great Spectrism Hoax
A historic survey of con men such as Prescott Ford Jernegan who claimed gold extraction from sea water and built a fraud network in Maine and Rhode Island. It also notes Lester Green’s sensational hoaxes and the Spectrism poetry fad devised by Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke, later exposed as a hoax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ameen
Prescott Ford Jernegan
Middletown
Conn
Arthur W. Ryan
Jernegan
Warraganset Bay
Rhode Island
Jemegan
Tabéc
Maine
Begen
Yeex
Tely
Téerwegen
Europe
Charles E. Fisher
Jernegen
Anne Knish
Emanuel Morgan
Witter Bynner
Arthur Davisson Ficke
America