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found this behind an old picture frame I got

weewillie

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wow.

That's a "keeper"!
 
Me thinks your picture frame is probably worth more than the picture or the newpaper?
 
no but it does have an article about the fire that destroyed the immigrant landing station at ellis island
 
on the live stock market, calves sold for $5-7/head, sheep at 3-3 1/2 cents/lb and spring lambs from $3-3.50/head. and as for the help wanted and the ads shoes $2.00, 3 or 4 button suits for $9.99, mens fine natural wool underwear,shirts and drawers imported from germany .50 each
 
absolutely original and only 3 incomplete pages
 
I found some newspaper pages from 1963 in the model train collections I had as a kid and thought those were impressive... Not compared to THAT find!
 
wee willie, thanks for the "up date", did you ever see on t.v. the guy refurbishing his house who opened some walls to add insulation found a fortune in old movie house posters? the house was previously owned by a movie theater owner/operator, we should be so lucky! :savewave:
 
no kidding the only thing I ever found behind walls were mouse skeletons
 
All I ever found were a pair of old glass milk bottles from the local Freeman's Dairy. I knew the Freeman family, and the dairy is long closed. I kept the best one for the basement book shelves, and the other had a description of the remodeling we were doing, when we resealed the walls, and some photographs. I wonder if anyone will ever find our time capsule?
 
I've got bags in the attic of my garage. My wife's grandparents saved every important headline starting from the early 40's on up. I've got a few full news papers from the first steps on the moon, mets winning the world series, "Marilyn is Dead". The WWII one are in pretty bad shape though.
 
Only thing I ever found was when I was adding some insulation in the attic. Pulled up a board and found "The Orator's Companion", published in Boston in 1826. "This publication is principally intended for the accommodation of Teachers of Elocution". (how to write and give speeches)

Inside a child had written in pencil:

<span style="font-style: italic">I went uptown this morning, to sing a little song.
My doly sends me warning, to bring my boots along.

For the yard is paved with cinders, and the house is built of stone.
A dear face at the window, my lovely Doly Jones.

Laura Smith, Pomfret Conn.</span>

On p. 348: <span style="font-style: italic">"Divide and conquer must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us."</span> Lots to think about in that book.

I'm afraid all they'll find when I'm gone is some old Bentley manuals.

T.
 
This is wierd!!! Must be a day for "yesterdays' papers"!!!
Didn't find this in a wall, but a box of old family stuff! My wifes' father was in the 82nd Airborn. Also included a VE Day edition of their hometown paper (New Kensington, Pa.)
It is just so cool to read old stuff like this as if it were current news!!
 

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I got a pile of papers from 57-58 that were under the lenolium upstairs in our house when we bought it. Lots of sunday comics, and all kinds of neat stuff to read. I like the car ads. for being walked on for 40 years, they were in remarkably good shape.
 
Great find Willie...

It was quite common in the past for people to stuff old newspapers into walls and such during the framing of buildings or other renovation work.

A friend of mine who restored (er... built) two old houses into one discovered old newspaper pages hidden in the walls, one area had papers dating back to the 1920's, but his papers were a little worse for wear than that one.
 
weewillie said:
no kidding the only thing I ever found behind walls were mouse skeletons
Found this...

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His name is Vector Dimitrios Constantine Squeakimus CCCXXXIII
We respectfully interred him in a Mont Blanc pen box.
 
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