Word: albertia
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Last July Mariquita was rushed from her sanatorium to the Spanish steamship Monte Albertia in Buenos Aires harbor. The sisters of the sanatorium tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...