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1904 Ebenezer Scrooge Award winner
« on: January 19, 2010, 03:04:57 AM »

Stock, Theodore* ( -1904). gunsmith. Kansas City.

The contents of the old gunsmith shop at 18 East Missouri avenue, which belonged to Theodore Stock, the miser who died at the German hospital, October 4, will be sold at public auction to-day by Charles Roll, administrator of Stock's estate
[Kansas City Times, Saturday, October 29, 1904].

Some of you have seen this as I had it up on another site also. Too good to pass up so will pass along.
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Offline Dennis Glazener

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Re: 1904 Ebenezer Scrooge Award winner
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2010, 03:46:14 AM »
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who died at the German hospital, October 4, will be sold at public auction to-day by Charles Roll, administrator of Stock's estate
[Kansas City Times, Saturday, October 29, 1904
WOW didn't take long to settle his estate!
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Re: 1904 Ebenezer Scrooge Award winner
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2010, 07:35:51 AM »
They apparently didn't particularly like Mr. Stock, did they?  I have an Illinois gunsmith  (John Spradling, Clinton, Illinois, born 1811 - died 1887) who was remembered this way in his obituary:  "John Spradling was a strange man, he hated all mankind." It was all downhill from there, and it's a long obituary.
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