Posted on 06/25/2021 8:08:02 PM PDT by MAGA2017
When boat captain Jennifer Dowker saw a small green bottle at the bottom of the Cheboygan River, she picked it up, thinking it might keep a prospective client interested in scuba diving.
Little did she know she had found something that would interest many more than just the one client.
Dowker is the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures, which runs shipwreck tours and scuba diving lessons in Cheboygan, Michigan. Last week, while she was cleaning the bottom of her glass-bottomed boat, the Yankee Sunshine, she found a message in a bottle dated 1926.
Dowker told Fox News that she finds a lot of glass bottles and even has a collection, though she had never found a message in a bottle until last week.
...According to pictures of the note that Dowker posted on social media, the note was dated November 1926.
It said: "Will the person who finds this bottle, return this paper to George Morrow, Cheboygan, Michigan, and tell where it was found?"
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That’s a nice story. Of all people to find the bottle, there was Captain Jennifer, who runs a tour group.
Looking at the note, it appears whoever wrote the cursive was lefthanded.
Sinistra... ;-)
Sounds like a publicity stunt.
“We’ve been trying to reach you about your vehicle warranty...”
Gauche...
I saw a meme that said that a couple of days ago.
You beat me to it!
There’s no way the paper would have been in such good shape if the bottle were 2/3rds full of water as the article says.
This falls into the category of “Likely Stories.”
It’s remarkable that the water (article says the bottle was 2/3 full) didn’t seem to fade the ink on the paper...
didn’t seem to fade the ink on the paper...
Laser printers were pretty effective even back in 1926
Maybe India ink was...
**There’s no way the paper would have been in such good shape if the bottle were 2/3rds full of water as the article says.**
They probably forgot to mention that it was protected by a ziplock sandwich bag.
You got to post at pic... Lol grammar police freepers will love it. “Whene”. And November with an i?? Dotted e? That confused me. Looks pretty “sus”. :)
They don’t make ink like they used to?
I found a bottle with a note on a beach once. Gallon jug from some cheap wine, they had dumped it in the water a week before and it nestled right in with the rest of the beach trash, less than a quarter mile away from where they claimed to have dumped it.
is it ink? Letters seem aweful wide and blocky for a cartridge pen and ball pens weren’t widely available outside the military until after ww2. Maybe construction pencils like a carpenter’s pencil (heavy graphite) or a carbon black (tar and clay) which are both wide, tips?
We probably make better ink now for most purposes; I don’t think anyone has made ink that will allow writing to survive being wet for almost a hundred years; much less paper.
Carpenter’s pencil might last a long while; but the paper?
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