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Stray greeting

COMPILED BY R. KRITHIKA

It took 93 years for a Christmas card to make its way from Alma, Nebraska, to Oberline, Kansas. The card was mailed to Ethel Martin on December 23, 1914, from her cousins. It reached her sister-in-law Bernice Martin in early December this year. Nobody knows where the card lay for practically a century but it reached with a modern cover and stamp since the one-cent stamp it bore wouldn’t have been sufficient for the modern postal charges. Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schu ltz told the Associated Press “It’s surprising that it never got thrown away. How someone found it, I don’t know.” Bernice Martin, who received the card, said that it was found in Illinois. “We’d like to know how it got down there. We don’t know much about it. But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape.”

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