Joe disappeared, but Jeptha remained working at the Alleys as a pinbody. In Part 3, Nahum married Margaret, who helped him run Truitt’s Alleys. When LuEtta was finally expelled, she agreed to marry Jeptha. Nahum arrived at the alleys with the intention of expelling women and preaching there. Sprague left a will bequeathing the bowling alley to Bertha’s only descendent, a son, Nahum Truitt. Although Joe was falsely considered a suspect, there lacked evidence to convict him. Sprague died in a curiously contained fire in the bowling alley.

Together they built a doll that resembled Bertha. Sprague drank and lived in Truitt’s Alleys while Joe ran it, living in the apartment above. Sprague sent Minna to his family in Canada, escorted by Margaret, their maid. Bertha died tragically in a molasses flood in Boston in 1919 when Minna was 12 years old. Leviticus Sprague, and they had a daughter, Minna. Bertha welcomed women into her establishment, who admired her. She hired Joe Wear, to whom she promised ownership of the alley, and Jeptha Arrison, to set the pins.

Bertha built the first Candlepin bowling alley in Salford, referred to as Truitt’s Alleys. She was found with a corset, a candlepin, a bowling ball, and 15 pounds of gold. Part 1 of McCracken’s Bowlaway began with the finding of Bertha Truitt in a frosty Salford, Massachusetts cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McCracken, Elizabeth.

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