November 2?, 1942

[mbarrick]

Elaine and I just found a copy of the "Daily Province" from November 1942 crammed in the space above the sliding doors between the living room and dining room. We were talking and I idly held my hands up near the opening to lean off the door jamb. I noticed a breeze coming out and presumed the wall must be hollow right up to the 4th floor, since the 4th floor suite above us has no living room window at the moment. To confirm my theory we took out a flashlight and looked up into the space and found the paper. Likely the paper was crammed up there to stop a similar draft nearly 61 years ago. The paper is so dry and brittle it falls apart just to touch it and these are the largest peices we could save. I managed to read a the date off one page, November 2[1 or 7], 1942, before it fell apart. Elaine managed to read ads for the "new" Disney cartoon "Donald's Gold Mine" and part of ads for an Abbot and Costello movie, a movie with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan (admission 25¢, plus tax.), and another with Humphrey Bogart and Lionel Barrymore. You don't get to discover things like this in a new building. A bigger version of the scan with no words highlighted here.