Book returned to library after 99 years

An 81-year-old woman found an overdue library book checked out by her grandfather 99 years earlier.

Mary Cooper, of Ocean County, NJ, the US, was going through a box of items that had belonged to her mother when she came across the book, Home-Made Toys for Girls and Boys by A. Neely Hall and discovered it had been borrowed from the Ocean County Library in March 1926. Her grandfather, Charles Tilton had checked out the book a year before he died.

The Ocean County Library said the book’s return........

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