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circa 1955: Elderly gentlemen rest on the steps outside the Old Howard Athenaeum in the Italian quarter of Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Great Read: The Day Molasses Ran All Over Boston

Author Julie Devereaux

Molasses Mayhem! This must have been on hell of a mess to clean up. Sticky liquid and in the month of January?! “Slow as molasses running uphill” was not this molasses! This molasses was moving at 35 mph up Commercial Street in the North End!

Remembering Boston's Deadly Molasses Flood, 100 Years Later

The North End flood that followed the burst of a tank killed 21 and injured dozens more on Jan. 15, 1919.

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