Here's the other thing that was in the box from Johnny. This huge book took up almost the whole box! (And sorry about the shadows, I've been shoveling for the past two hours and don't want to redo the shots.)
It's a ledger book from 1927. By itself that would be cool, but it's a lot more interesting than that.
It's a scrapbook! It looks like after the ledger book was filled in 1928, it got re-used as a scrapbook. Johnny doesn't know anything about this history, but I'll certainly have a lot of fun looking into it. In fact I plan to do a blog post about every page. Warning - there is no baseball and almost no sports here, this will be one of those blog series I pretty much just do for myself. There is a lot of variety, though.
There is a lot more than just newspaper in the scrapbook, which really helps beef up my "old things" collection. Lots of interesting stuff here! This will be a lot of fun to go through; and if there is a particular item that would fit someone else's collection better than mine, I'd be happy to pass it along.





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