They spent a lot of time wrapping newspaper around all the gaps in the walls.
This is an old bridge beam, 4 inches thick by 8 inches wide.
posted on Mar 14, 2015 7:30 PM ()
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keep digging...you may find buried treasure left by some old prospector or nutty recluse who didn't believe in banks and kept his money in the walls
reguards yer remember yer old friends in Cowsnot pal bugg
What was the date on that paper? That was, I think, the Rocky Mountain Herald.
Paper in the walls! We saw that at my families cottage when my parents redid it.
I bought my first upstate NY house in '78. It was probably 100 years old or more. Still had a non-working outhouse on the property. They used newspaper under the floors as either insulation or a means to level the surface. I also remember as a kid in Queens NY finding papers from '39 at a construction site. I don't think I found out how the paper came to be buried, but there was plenty of it. I think the big news was a World's Fair.
The size of that bridege beam is something else!!
And as a bonus you get to read old newspapers and see what was going on in the world!
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