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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
5
Four Harvard graduates sail from New York on the schooner Seneca a 95 foot vessel owned by Demarest Lloyd son of the late John G. Lloyd of Boston. They carry a cargo kept secret as they depart for the Spanish main seeking romance and treasure.
The text names John T. Cole, John B. Fallon, and Arthur Coombs as figures linked to a plan tied to sunken treasure off Haiti. Lloyd, found at a downtown hotel before sailing, hints at locating eight Spanish treasure ships at 200 fathoms. He doubts buried treasure but mentions a Seneca under Captain Thomas Summers of Gloucester with a picked crew.
An unidentified man, fractured skull, lies at City Hospital after falling from the rear platform of an outward-bound Walpole car on Washington Street West Roxbury Saturday night. No identification found on his clothing.
Miss Nielsen starred as Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera House drawing one of the season's largest audiences. Her vocal and acting triumph earned her multiple curtain calls and plentiful bouquets from admirers.
Carnegie Hero Commission announces 20 new heroes including Victor M. Durgin of Salem who died April 19 1909 saving Isabel B Norton and her two year old daughter Anna from drowning at Middleton Pond Middleton Mass The award highlights a tragic rescue effort from the state.
Victor M. Durgin of Salem received a silver medal posthumously from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for attempting to save Isabel B. Norton and her daughter Anna W. Norton from drowning at Middleton pond on Patriot's Day, 1909. The effort cost him his life.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer appoints a four member inquiry board to investigate the Delaware battle ship accident that killed eight men and injured one. The panel includes Captain Nathaniel Usher Captain Charles Rodgers Commander Kenneth McAlspine and Lieutenant Commander Stanford Moses.
Gas from a main pipe on Massachusetts Avenue near Clinton Street in Cambridge burst into flames for over an hour after a muffled explosion at 5 30 PM. The display drew hundreds as tongues of fire shot along a 50 foot stretch and rumors of a subway blast spread.
An old advertisement promotes Bromo Quinine as a world wide cold and grip remedy. It claims to remove the cause and lists a price of 25 cents. The seller signs with initials B. Grove.
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