Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A German roofer working on a cathedral found a message in bottle, written by his grandfather - The Washington Post

A German roofer working on a cathedral found a message in bottle, written by his grandfather - The Washington Post

A German roofer working on a cathedral found a message in bottle, written by his grandfather


An 88-year-old message in a bottle was found under the roof of the cathedral vestibule in Goslar, Germany. (Julian Stratenschulte/Picture-alliance/DPA/AP)

— On March 26, 1930, four roofers in this small west German town inscribed a message to the future. "Difficult times of war lie behind us," they wrote. After describing the soaring inflation and unemployment that followed the First World War, they concluded, "We hope for...

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