No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library

When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated. Local man John Hanson walked in with it, reports NPR's Sophia Palaza-Carre, and the given excuse that he did not himself withdraw the item was impossible to refute, him having not been born for another half a century. — Read the rest The post No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library appeared first on Boing Boing.

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