39 YEARS LATER
ENJOYING A HOLIDAY. An American, Hiram O. Burbank, jun., just arrived in Berlin to enjoy a holiday which his father booked 39 years ago. Burbank, sen., bought a ticket from a German shipping company for the trip from New' York to Hamburg in 1891. He was forced to postpone the trip indefinitely, and forgot the ticket until 1911, when he arranged to use it again, but once more w : as forced to postpone the pleasure. His third attempt, in 1914, coincided with the outbreak cf war. Eleven years after the war he died, and his son found the ticket among his papers. He asked the company, which is again operating, if it w'as still valid and they agreed to honour the obligation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 12 September 1930, Page 7
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12539 YEARS LATER Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 12 September 1930, Page 7
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