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Fake News Guru

by | Feb 16, 2018 | Departments, Unsung

In the 1920s, Oatman, Arizona, was a boomtown, and while the discovery of gold and the prosperity of the mines were always tabloid fodder, a bizarre narrative of a divorce caught the attention of readers around the country. Covered first as a special in The Arizona Republican on April 30, 1922, the news account carried the juicy headline, “Tribal Atrocities Alleged in Div


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