Does anyone know about the children's book about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

Question

Okay, when I was younger I read this book about the molasses flood of 1919. I can't remember it all but the protagonist was a boy who loved molasses a lot and then I believe his mother sent him off to get some and when he went he saw the molasses coming towards him and ran but he still got it all over him or something like that. His mom didn't believe him and sent him off to clean himself up and go to bed. I really liked this book and can't remember what it was called! Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Molasses Flood by Blair Lent

An incident in old-time Boston jump-starts this sticky legend. Young Charlie Owen Muldoon becomes a wide-eyed spectator on the January day when a sudden rise in temperature causes a local molasses tank to swell and explode. A gooey river flows through town displacing most everything in its path, but (as is wont to happen during a New England winter) a cold snap soon freezes the molasses in its tracks. Charlie Owen Muldoon--and the rest of Boston--has more than enough frozen chunks of molasses stored in the pantry.

Answer 2

Boston Molasses Disaster Book

Answer 3

It took over 87,000 guy hours to get rid of the molasses from the cobblestone streets, theaters, companies, automobiles, and properties.[4] The harbor ran brown until summer season time. indoors sight voters presented a classification-action lawsuit, between the 1st held in Massachusetts, against u.s. corporation Alcohol corporation, which had provided Purity Distilling in 1917. in spite of the corporate's tries to declare that the tank have been blown up via utilising anarchists (because of actuality lots of the alcohol produced replaced into for use in making munitions) it finally paid out $six hundred,000 in out-of-court docket settlements (a minimum of $6.6 million in 2005 money).[5] united states of america corporation Alcohol did not rebuild the tank. the valuables grew to enhance suitable right into a outdoor for the Boston greater efficient Railway (predecessor to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) and is on the prompt the area of a city-owned baseball container. The scent supposedly lingered for some years; in accordance to indoors sight folklore, molasses left from this catastrophe can although be smelled on heat days.[a million]

Answer 4

Is it any of these?



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