This is my 131-year old Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. About 25-years ago, I bought an old trunk at an auction for $10.
This is my 131-year old Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. About 25-years ago, I bought an old trunk at an auction for $10.
After a day or two of looking at things in the trunk, I got to the bottom. There I found an old news paper.
I unfolded it. It was one sheet - 24-inches long and 18-inches wide. It was the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated April 25, 1865. It had the price - two cents.
The headline reads, "PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S REMAINS IN INDEPENDENCE HALL." The bottom picture is a drawing of the interior view of the railroad car that conveyed President Lincoln's body on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
I have the newspaper in a plastic frame that has protected it for many years. Someday I hope to donate it to a museum that might be interested in it.
Carman Robert Sample and his wife Gloria operate "The Colony," a bed and breakfast located in the Historic Stockyards District of Fort Worth.