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BALTO NOT NOME HERO DOG.; Seppala Says Husky Named Fox Was Leader of His Team.

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BOSTON, March 8. -- Before leaving Boston for Poland Springs, Me., this evening Leonhard Seppala, famous musher of the Northwest, declared that a thoroughbred husky named Fox, and not Balto, was leader of his dog team which rushed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, during the epidemic there in 1925. View Full Article in Timesmachine »