Lester Green
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Lester Green was a nonexistent farmer, supposedly living in Prospect, Connecticut in the 1930s. He was a creation of a newspaperman C. Louis Mortison.
Mortison wrote columns about Lester Green for the Waterbury Republican and American. Green's supposed exploits attracted lots of interests, including articles in other newspapers. They included:
- Filling his chimney with glass through an accidental mixing of sand and baking soda. Two chemical engineers wanted to investigate.
- Putting two hens on his car's motor on cold nights to make it easier to start it by morning.
- Spraying the apples of his apple trees with glue so that the fruit would not drop off at autumn. Glue manufacturers wanted to know what glue he had used.
- Building a new shell from cement to a turtle that had been scared out of its original shell.
- Discovering a fluid that made pigs' tails curly and using that to curl the hair of his wife. Bedspring manufacturer wanted to use it.
- Finding hen eggs that had been frozen in ice and that later hatched chicks with fur coats. Farmers were very interested.
- Training his dog to flee foxes so that Green could ambush and shoot them.