Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Former library book.
Blurb: “For the last 15 years I have spent numerous hours researching the wonderful history of Dayton. Much of the material has ended up in various books I have written. Still, there were quite a few stories that did not lend themselves for inclusion in the subject matter I happen to be writing about at the time. I filed these stories away, not knowing what I would do with them, but also not being able to throw them out - they were just too interesting.
I knew that people were tired of reading about the same well- of the i them, eresting el- known stories of the first flight by the Wright Brothers or about the flood that deluged the city in 1913. They wanted something different. So in 2004 I started a website called Dayton History Books Online and began placing the text from some of my books and a variety of other historical articles, books and booklets about Dayton online.
The site has grown over the years to the point that, as of this writing, there are now over 13,500 pages of text that can be searched, read and printed out. I constantly get emails from visitors who enjoy the unusual tidbits of history they have found there.
From this feedback I have created the book you now hold in your hands. It contains stories that have proven to be popular on the site, as well as other tales that I haven't yet shared - until If I have omitted a story that readers believe should have been included in this book, please feel free to send me suggestions for stories that could be used for a possible sequel to... Curt Dalton's Gem City Jewels”
Inside you'll learn:
- The Liberty Bell stops in Dayton after a visit to the World's Fair
- A school where students are graded for how well they can relax
- Dayton becomes the second city to begin food stamps program
- A dead man testifies that a medicine has cured all his ailments
- Edgar Cayce opens the Cayce Psychic Institute in Philips Hotel
- The Battle of Gettysburg is refought here for over 40 years
- Man dresses up as Carry Nation to carry out a 'hatchetation'
- Dayton Art Institute land was once an Indian burial ground
- People scramble as five thousand pennies fall from the sky
- Houdini escapes from a barrel of beer at Keith's Theater
More than eighty stories that are amazing - yet true!
Join the author as he retells select stories from past publications, and reveals new, unusual ones, in his latest book about Dayton's great history: