I BELIEVE IT MAY HAVE BEEN A BUSINESSMAN.
WHO DID RUSSELL CON OUT OF MONEY?
by badboy 8 Replies latest jw friends
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sacolton
EVERYONE!
He tried to con people to buy his EXPENSIVE "Miracle Wheat" which wasn't any different than regular wheat.
He was a swindler and a cheat.
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lawrence
The 3 Stooges, Charlie Chaplin, Rick James, and Archduke Ferdinand. Actually everyone he met. The founder father was a thief and his protege was a drunken liar. How could any good come out of the likes of those 2 men?
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Homerovah the Almighty
The general public
Once a salesman always a salesman, a God playing opportunist of his time
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cognac
He tried to con people to buy his EXPENSIVE "Miracle Wheat" which wasn't any different than regular wheat.
how did you find that out?
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sacolton
Wikipedia is your friend ...
Charles Taze Russell
On March 22, 1911, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle began publishing articles accusing Russell of gaining profit from a strain of wheat named "Miracle Wheat" by its discoverer, K.B. Stoner of Fincastle, Virginia in 1903. Once other newspapers read this claim, many critics began to insist that Russell had deceived and defrauded many by selling this supposedly advanced strain of wheat for $60 a bushel, far above the average cost of wheat for the day. Throughout 1912 and 1913 the Eagle continued to report on this alleged fraud on Russell's part. Russell sued the Eagle for libel, but lost. A Government expert investigated the "Miracle Wheat" and said it "was low in the Government tests". Prior to entering the court the Eagle had published "The Eagle goes even further and declares that at the trial it will show that "Pastor" Russell's religious cult is nothing more than a money-making scheme." [4] Russell defended himself publicly, and in writing, by claiming that the wheat was donated to the Watch Tower Society, and although sold for $1 per pound Mr. Stoner routinely sold it for a $1.25 per pound. Russell claimed to have no financial connection to the wheat, and that any who were dissatisfied by their purchase and donation were offered a refund as much as one year following purchase. No one claimed a refund.
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Gopher
Cognac -- Here's a thread from last year with the whole article (ignore the original post, and go down a ways), plus an interesting defense from a hit-and-run poster named Reslight2.
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Witness 007
Didn't he con his wife out of her share of $$$$$ and alimony?
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badboy
BTTTT