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Show Reclaim Old Penny They Cached 50 Years Ago GORHAM, MAINE. Fifty years ago two boys earned 15 cents digging dig-ging dandelion greens for a neighbor. neigh-bor. They split their boodle, seven cents apiece, and then, not knowing know-ing what to do with the odd penny, they buried it. The boys grew up and left Gor-ham. Gor-ham. This summer they returned, Stephen E. Patrick, now of the state board of education at Augusta, and Robert L. Hinkley, now of Utica, N. Y. Remembering their youthful problem prob-lem and the buried penny, they returned re-turned to the yard of the old Kinkley house, since destroyed by fire, and found the penny in the original cache. But the old problem of how to share it popped up again. So they matched for it |