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  • Book checked out in 1934 finally returned to Massachusetts library

    12/20/2023 11:05:34 AM PST · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    UPI ^ | DEC. 20, 2023 / 1:58 PM | By Ben Hooper
    Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A book checked out for two weeks from a Massachusetts library was returned 90 years later after turning up in Washington, D.C. The Watertown Free Public Library said in a Facebook post that the book, Hill Towns of Italy by Egerton R. Williams Jr., was checked out Jan. 30, 1934, and was supposed to have been returned 14 days later. The book's journey back to the library turned out to be far longer, however, as it only made its way back to the facility this week after a "far-flung patron" found it in Washington and dropped...