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Slow as Molasses in Winter

Posted: Thursday, February 8th, 2007 @ 7:58 pm in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Molasses can kill.
On a warmish winter day in the early part of the twentieth century, Boston’s North End found this out.
Molasses, at that time, was America’s sweetener.  A distilling company was storing the stuff in multi-million-gallon storage tank on Commercial Street.  On January 15, 1919 (notably one day before the 18th […]