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Watery tomb: letters, newspapers rescued from half-century Stuart Town time capsule

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“News” was both good and bad from the much-anticipated Stuart Town time capsule opening recently!

First the bad news: as some had suspected — and despite the best efforts of the unknown depositors of 1973 — water had leaked into the sealed tank over the intervening 50 years.

Good news: little damage had been done to much of the personal family letters and newspapers that the capsule...


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