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Thanks Jeff of pa, That is a full two years before the article in Argosy Magazine by Pauline Innis in August, 1964. Everyone claims if it had not been for the Harts and Pauline Innis the story would have died and been forgotten about? This article contradicts all of those naysayers remarks. Keep digging. Thanks.
 

thanks Jeff,yeah 2 years. i just had to look into the guys
simple google name search....
love the name Burpee O'Blenes
https://www.archives.com/1940-census/burpee-oblenes-ma-117953234

John Green, snip of obit
He loved his family, his little dog, Sparky, gardening, and treasure hunting with his friends
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-scituate/obituary.aspx?n=john-a-green&pid=157676110

Hiram J Herbert
Title Shenandoah Life: The First Fifty Years, 1916-1966
Author Hiram J. Herbert
Publisher Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, 1966
https://books.google.com/books/about/Shenandoah_Life.html?id=jVJEvgAACAAJ

Charter for the Roanoke Virginia Council of the Navy League of the United States
https://hswv.pastperfectonline.com/archive/CEB7D400-44DD-4C67-B667-767013624510

need to dig a little more for Gordon P MacDavitt,not sure its him but
i think he passed soon after the search, make sure b4 i post
i think this is Gordon, still havent found a obit
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22835302/gordon-p_-macdavitt/photo

those guys were at in may of 62
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/564886/may_17_1962_bedford_treasure_lures/


 

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franklin said:
...That is a full two years before the article in Argosy Magazine by Pauline Innis in August, 1964. Everyone claims if it had not been for the Harts and Pauline Innis the story would have died and been forgotten about?
This article contradicts all of those naysayers remarks.,.
Click to expand...
Curious as to where they heard of the Beale treasure.
Did that have a copy of the BEALE PAPERS?
Nonetheless, Pauline Innis's ARGOSY article and GOLD IN THE BLUE RIDGE book did keep the story alive.
 

Reading the article, it seems that Hiram J Herbert, Roanoke free-lance writer must have had a copy of the Beale Papers pamphlet, gave it to Massachusetts postal worker, Gordon P MacDavitt to solve the C1 & C3 ciphers, and believing that he accomplished just just that, involved a fellow postal worker, O'Blenes and neighbor, Green, to join in the treasure hunt.
 

One of them HAD to have a copy of the Beale Paper pamphlet for MacDavitt to have worked on solving the ciphers two years before Pauline Innis's ARGOSY article and before the publishing of her "GOLD IN THE BLUE RIDGE".
The obvious person to have had a pamphlet copy would be the free-lance writer in Roanoke, Hiram J Herbert.
*NOTE* The above article was written by a Roanoke staff writer and appeared first in ROANOKE WORLD-NEWS.
Was that the same newspaper that reviewed the Beale Papers by "JB WADE" in the 1890's?
The newspaper may have had an original copy of the Job Print Pamphlet in its archive morgue.
 

DYK...? Both Paula & her husband were "Spies"...? Could "Gold" be a dis-information "piece"...?
 

each mag has a book listing called desert magazine book store
usually in the back of mag, im thinking if the DM did a beale
story it would be listed in the bookstore.
ran across a couple more treasure mags that may have been published
in the early 60s, have to check more on that
a beale could have been in LIFE or HARPER'S too
 

it prob was Hiram J Herbert, that found the BT story, just not sure
how the post guys would have known,the article is the only connect
to the postal guys and Hiram J Herbert. still looking.....

only found 2 articles Innis wrote for Argosy
INNIS, P. B.
Stories, Listed by Author
Contents Lists

havent had a chance yet to look through these links
for an older article on the BT
Argosy issue Checklist
Contents Lists
Argosy issue Checklist 2
Issue Checklist

or here
General Fiction Magazine Index
Checklist Index, Part 1

have not looked for a sherman pseudonym, i would
have to look up the pseudonym used by sherman
Listed by Author
Index: Stories, Listed by Author
full text mag links
Magazine Issues with Full-Text Links

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Galactic Central
General Fiction Index
 

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