Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Truly great ideas don't come around very often.

The kind of once in a lifetime ideas that not only change a person's life, but change

the lives of people all over the world.

Alexander Norris had such an idea.

Norris was born in Ireland in 1771 and emigrated to America later in life.

He made his home in the growing city of Cincinnati, Ohio, along with his two daughters Olivia

and Elizabeth.

Around 1833, Olivia met a widower named William, who would come over from England several

years earlier.

William had worked in an English general store as a child.

The shop's owner took the boy under his wing and taught him how to dip candles.

William spent years learning the ropes of running a business and when he met his first wife

Martha, he knew it was time to strike out on his own.

William opened a shop in London, which lasted all of 24 hours.

He was robbed the day after his grand opening and could no longer afford to pay back the

$8,000 debt he owed.

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