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Old 06-28-2019, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy View Post
From the article, "Back in 1890, a 13-year-old boy named Emerich Juettner boarded a ship in Austria..."

Last time I checked, Austria is land-locked. Kind of hard to board a ship in a land-locked country.
If this was in 1890, then Austria would’ve been a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had sea access through what is now Croatia.
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