BANANA HAND HURT Submitted by: Jan B. Strickland April 2005 Source: NEW ORLEANS TIMES DEMOCRAT - August 9, 1900 - Pg 8, C. 7 ************************************************* Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Joe Massone of No. 520 Hospital street was unloading bananas aboard the fruit steamship Condor at the head of Thalia street yesterday afternoon, when he was caught by the winch and bruised about the left leg and hip; also about the small of the back. The ambulance corps attended him, after which he was taken home by his brother.