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Five Die Two Hurt in Jaffa Explosion

November 23, 1923
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Five persons are dead, two are at the point of death having been scalded when the boiller at the Yeast factory here exploded.

The factory owned by a Mr. Salpeter, a recently arrived pioneer from Hungary was completely demolished and one worker was killed outright. Salpeter, his wife and two employees, Herman and Fish, died of the wounds yesterday.

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