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Wealthy Amnesiac Found After Days of Disorientation
Philip Hobson, seventeen, heir to a Massachusetts paper magnate, was found in San Antonio with no memory of how he arrived. He recalled attending tutoring in Cambridge on January 6 before waking up five days later at a railroad station with money missing and no city identified. He identified his father as Arthur T. Hobson, president of the St. Croix Paper Co, and wired for help.
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Philip Hobson
Massachusetts
Pond
Cambridge
San Antonio
Arthur Ti
Hobson
St. Croix
Western Union