Did someone really sell the Brooklyn Bridge?

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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Link to Staff Report

Great column by Gfactor but the formatting is very misleading. The quote from the 1914 Lincoln Daily Star is obviously the following:

However the formatting makes the quote to appear to run on to mention 1928 news stories, which is of course impossible. This really needs fixing.

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Damn, a wandering blockquote. Sorry about that. It’s fixed.

TubaDiva
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FTR, there’s more research on this to be found in a thread in General Questions.

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