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This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. On Friday, November 23rd, 1849, a doctor named George Parkman walked into a grocery store on Fruit Street in Boston.

He was one of the richest men in town, a graduate of Harvard, and the medical school's single largest owner.

He ordered 32 pounds of sugar and 6 pounds of butter to be delivered to his house. A neighbor came into the store and said

something about the weather. Dr. Parkman said to his neighbor, we cannot find

fault with such weather as this. And then he turned to leave. But before

he left the store he turned back to the grocer and asked if he could leave

something with him behind the counter.

It was a closed paper bag.

Dr. Parkman said he would come right back for it, and then he walked away.

Many hours later, the grocery store clerk opened the paper bag. Inside, he found one head of lettuce.

That was actually one of the first noticeable signs of his

disappearance which was that he never came back for his lettuce. We're hearing

about Dr. Parkman's disappearance from Paul Collins. He's an author and professor of English at Portland State University.

Initially, when Parkman didn't come home, his absence was noticed, but it wasn't particularly remarked upon.

Someone not immediately coming home is not quite the same cause for alarm that it would be today for the simple reason that if you're out and about in the field and you get stuck somewhere

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