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Walter Wellman was a newspaper man who made four attempts at reaching the North Pole by air ship between 1907 and 1911. Each failed. In a test for the final assault the airship exploded and all five on board were killed (Wellman was not one of them – he died of natural causes in 1934). We assume they all went down wearing their South Bend watches?? The South Bend Watch Company operated in South Bend from 1903 thru 1929. Later ads showed the watches frozen in a block of ice. They also made the Studebaker watches and sold other jewelry. Thousands of these watches have survived.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:39:39 +0000

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