E.J. Pennington
Aug 09, 2020
3 minutes
BY DAVID CONWILL
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE
HISTORICAL COLLECTION, DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY
clothes were fancy, his tastes expensive, and he regularly received “fake” telegrams from wealthy men begging him to let them invest with him. He was fond of summoning all of the men of influence in a small city and making impressive presentations to them. He could perform just enough real-world engineering and fabrication to put his marks at ease. He
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