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The Mystery of the Marie Celeste

1910. Los Angeles Herald Sunday Magazine, 30 October 1910.

An unsigned newspaper feature giving the explanation of Arthur N. Putman, a New York appraiser who had investigated the ship's later insurance fraud: a sailor took a light below, fumes from the cargo ignited in a series of small explosions, and the crew took to the boat and cut it loose.

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An early printed form of the explosion theory.

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(1910). The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. Los Angeles Herald Sunday Magazine, 30 October 1910. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/curiv_rubidoux_ver01/data/sn85042462/00175035898/1910103001/1391.pdf
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