# Did someone really sell the Brooklyn Bridge?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 25, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093 "2017-07-25T17:33:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093/1 "2017-07-25T17:33:03Z")

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[Link to Staff Report](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3039/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge)

Great column by **Gfactor** but the formatting is very misleading. The quote from the 1914 Lincoln _Daily Star_ is obviously the following:

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> A St. Louis man has bought part of a bridge across the Mississippi. We can’t help wondering if this is the same westerner who used to buy the Brooklyn bridge every season.

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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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093/2 "2017-07-26T23:08:58Z")

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

TubaDiva  
(We are all a keystroke away from disaster.)

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**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093/3 "2017-08-03T13:47:08Z")

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FTR, there’s more research on this to be found in a thread in [General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=831893).

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-someone-really-sell-the-brooklyn-bridge/792093/4 "2017-08-11T02:38:38Z")

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> [@Civil\_Guy](#):
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> FTR, there’s more research on this to be found in a thread in [General Questions](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=831893).

Note: the thread has been moved to Comments.