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Counterfeiters in Altoona

Herald of July 21, 1899

A large number of counterfeit half dollars were being circulated in Altoona. It was believed that they were being coined by a group of counterfeiters in or near the city. The coins were easily identified as they were defectively made.

A Bellefonte farmer, John Evans, escaped serious injury or death when he was almost burned alive in a grain field. While driving a binder, to which three horses were attached, in a harvest field in Nippenose Valley, near the Oriole cave, the earth opened and the horses, driver and binder dropped into a hole twenty feet deep. Evans and his...

 

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