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Show LONG TIME ON WAY. Letter Delivered Fifteen Years After It "Was Mailed. DELAWARE, 6.. Oct. 21. "While carpenters car-penters -were tearing down the wainscoting wain-scoting In an old powtofnee building here they noticed a letter drop from its hiding hid-ing place bearing a stamp of the two-cent two-cent green yerles with the portrait of George Washington. The letter was addressed ad-dressed to "Miss Daify Walker, Cherry street, Toledo, O." The letter must have been mailed fifteen fif-teen years ago, as the poslofllce has been located elsewhere since that time. The cancellation and date arc Indistinct The workmen took the letter to the poylofD.ce uptown and by accident a clerk In the department recalled a girl formerly of Delaware by that name, but who had removed to Alaska, and Inter lived In Toledo, where she wan married to a man named Raymond. At noon a mall carrier returned from his route and overheard the Inquiry concerning con-cerning the addressee. He at once made the remark: "Why, Daisy Walker-Raymond Walker-Raymond Is visiting today at the home of Harry Miller on Spring street here " The postman took charge of the letter end delivered It to Its owner. |