The news from Boston was sketchy and unconfirmed. Still, no newspaper that took pride in its independence could ignore it. So the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford, boldly displayed the item: "We hear from Boston that last Thursday evening, between 300 and 400 Boxes of the celebrated East India TEA, by some ACCIDENT! which happened in an attempt to get it on Shore, fell overboard—That the Boxes burst open and the Tea was swallowed up by the vast Abyss!"
When that historical incident from America's past appeared in the Courant in the issue of Dec....
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