| I love Trivia! White Cloud, KS
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Ever wonder how the "piggy bank" got its name? A plaque on Main Street honors Wilbur Chapman, the ten year-old boy who raised and sold a pig to help support a boy suffering from leprosy. Chapman was impressed by a traveling missionary's sermon about lepers, and on his own, he set about raising money to help stop the suffering. He raised a pig, and donated the proceeds from this enterprise to help lepers. Keep in mind this was the effort of a ten year-old, but it caught the imagination of the public. His example started the "Pig Bank Movement" in the early 1900's to help lepers, and the name stuck.
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In the words of George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
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