MAN OVERBOARD
FAILURE TO FIND BODY LONDON, Nov. 3. The White Star liner Alajestic, on her way to'* Southampton, circled for more than an hour in an effort to rescue a first-class passenger. Mr D. I’. Davis, who was lost overboard. Wireless messages say that “everything possible was done” to recover the body. Mr Davis, a native of Florida, suffered heavy losses in the recent collapse of the Florida land boom. . Starting his career as a newsboy, ho became a leading figure in the boom. His most sensational enterprise was the construction of a chain of artificial islands in Tampa Boy. He sold lots on the islands to the amount of £5,200,000. From Tampla he move to St. Augustine, where he launched a still more ambitious scheme, hut the boom col- ■ lapsed. Mr Davis was 44.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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