A story so crazy that it could have been ripped out of today’s news, yet it appeared in the New York Times on 1 July 1907.
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“Not detained.” Really?
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![](https://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Dingbat-13.jpg)
A story so crazy that it could have been ripped out of today’s news, yet it appeared in the New York Times on 1 July 1907.
“Not detained.” Really?