Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/18/126-year-old-mystery-message-in-a-bottle-found-inside-building-wall.html
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The “[illegible] Sep 22” part just appears to be “Shea” again, followed by “Sep 23”.
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Could just be a reminder of where something was stashed on Shea street in Quincy. I’d guess the street (and address) would be old enough. Anybody know if there is a #6 on Shea St?
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Bonus points if the item hidden on Shea is another note in a bottle.
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That’s exactly what it looks like to me.
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Agreed, that jumped out at me immediately
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We’re about to tear up our kitchen and put in new cabinets, etc. This gives me some ideas!
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google-maps says here it is …though #6 is a bit off to the side (now)
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Yes, thank you!
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It is a very long con. Turns out every house on the block has one of these sports betting predictions. If this one turns out correct, his great great grandson will hide another prediction in this house, and all the others that got correct predictions. Around the next millennium when the Qanon party has achieved world domination, the house will be considered so wise that a new political party will rise: the house party.
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Okay, I’ve looked, and I think my theory is shot to hell. Maybe there was an older house at #6, but that lot is long gone, and the other houses along Shea are 1930’s - 1940’s vintage. I don’t think there was anything there but farm in the 1880s.
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It’s guerrilla marketing for a new line of whiskey by Tom Ford dropping next spring.
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Shea for president then?
When had some work done on our house (built in the early 1960s), we found a 1929 silver dollar inside one of the walls. And a bunch of used razor blades inside the bathroom wall (but that’s more easily explained).
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I first doubted the authenticity of the whiskey bottle label, but then I found this:
So maybe it is legit. It just looked too perfect to me, almost like it had been placed there by a stainless steel monolith or something…
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It sounds as if you know this already, but medicine cabinets used to have a slot in the back that could be used to dispose of used double-edged blades, dropping them between the wall studs. When, in the far future, the house I lived in as a teen is demolished, they will find enough of my DNA to clone me.
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J.E. Floyd is cancelled.
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Which one’s J.E.?
J E was just the next random classified ad in the 1894 newspaper…his misdeeds we can only speculate about! (guessing non-payment of goods)
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So did I. I’m still not convinced.
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