American History

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts) Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:32 AM Jun 2012

"Earharts Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found"

http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-freckle-creme-jar-120530.html

"A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.

When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry's Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles fade.

"It's well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia, the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News. "

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"Earharts Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found" (Original Post) Rowdyboy Jun 2012 OP

I love a mystery! sinkingfeeling Jun 2012 #1

There have been so many Earhart conspiracy stories over the years PatSeg Jun 2012 #2

They are beginning to gather some good circumstantial evidence. bluedigger Jun 2012 #3

Status of the Ointment Rmack Jun 2012 #4

Welcome to DU, Rmack. Skinner Jun 2012 #7

Here's a product label LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2012 #5

If she crashed in the ocean, odd bits may have floated to shore on islands here and there. tclambert Jun 2012 #6

When I was a child, about eight years old, Berlin Expat Jun 2012 #8

sinkingfeeling

(52,985 posts)

1. I love a mystery!

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 10:42 AM

Jun 2012

PatSeg

(49,721 posts)

2. There have been so many Earhart conspiracy stories over the years

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:20 PM

Jun 2012

but this one is very interesting. Of course, we have technology today that wasn't available before, so it adds more pieces to the puzzle.

bluedigger

(17,148 posts)

3. They are beginning to gather some good circumstantial evidence.

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 04:27 PM

Jun 2012

Enough to keep looking in the area at least.

Rmack

(2 posts)

4. Status of the Ointment

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 04:59 PM

Jun 2012

Was there any ointment residue left? It could be important.

Skinner

(63,645 posts)

7. Welcome to DU, Rmack.

Reply to Rmack (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 07:41 PM

Jun 2012

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,899 posts)

5. Here's a product label

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 06:33 PM

Jun 2012

I hope this means they're going to find Earhart's airplane and remains so she and her navigator can finally be put to rest.

tclambert

(11,134 posts)

6. If she crashed in the ocean, odd bits may have floated to shore on islands here and there.

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 06:59 PM

Jun 2012

Sorry to be a downer.

Berlin Expat

(955 posts)

8. When I was a child, about eight years old,

Reply to Rowdyboy (Original post)

Sat Jun 2, 2012, 06:16 AM

Jun 2012

I'd seen an episode of "In Search Of......" regarding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

My father told me, "Ahhh....... she was way off course and a lot of the old Navy guys figured she likely went down right near Gardner Island, Nikumaroro. If she survived the crash and made it to shore, she died there, 'cause no one lives there and there sure as hell ain't much on that island you can survive on. One of these days they'll find her there." That was 34 years ago.

My father was a WW2 US Navy vet, and when he joined the Navy, back in 1940, the old Navy hands he talked to were of this opinion as well, which is where he got the idea from, as he told me.

Perhaps my dad (and the old Navy vets) were right all along.

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