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  • Man returns overdue book checked out by grandfather-in-law 96 years earlier

    05/24/2023 1:00:44 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    UPI ^ | By Ben Hooper
    VIDEO AT LINK............ May 24 (UPI) -- A California man who returned a library book that was found to be 96 years overdue said he believes the tome was originally checked out by his deceased wife's grandfather. Jim Perry of Napa said he was going through boxes of books that had belonged to his wife, Sandra Learned Perry, when he came across a copy of Benson Lossing's A History of the United States from the St. Helena Public Library. Perry said he believes the book was checked out by John McCormick, Sandra Learned Perry's grandfather, who would have been 55...