Timothy Dexter, a Massachusetts merchant after the American Revolution, makes a string of odd business ventures that somehow pay off. He buys worthless Continental currency, ships a cargo of cats to Cuba to fight a rat problem, and sends coal to Newcastle. The stories are told in the Strange As It Seems program, narrated by John Hicks, with its episodes of unusual true events. The broadcast then moves on to a Mrs. America beauty contest winner from New Jersey and the life of scientist George Washington Carver, from his childhood on a Missouri plantation to his peanut research. The episode closes with General Israel Putnam's unusual duel with a British major.

With Timothy Dexter, Alexander Hamilton, Captain Seyz, Mrs. Armand Donnaruma, Moses Carver, Joe, George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington.

Listen for: The Timothy Dexter stories of the cats and the coal, and the Putnam duel with the powder keg

First aired on September 21, 1939.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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