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Ohio woman hopes trick-or-treater may find ring

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Now that’s a treat.  Imagine going through your bag of goodies and find a nice diamond ring.   To many kids it’d be something to play with and not know it’s value, to an older kid it’ll probably be sold.  Either way it’s a nice find.

TERRACE PARK, Ohio (AP) — A Halloween trick or treater in Ohio may have gotten a bigger treat than expected – a diamond ring. A woman in suburban Cincinnati said she thinks she may have lost her wedding ring when she was tossing candy into trick or treaters’ bags on Halloween.

Elizabeth Olson, of Terrace Park, said she had the ring enlarged and thinks it may have slipped off her finger when she was throwing candy into the bags, buckets and pillowcases.

Olson is asking people to keep an eye out for the ring and to return it to her if they find it.

Information from: WXIX-TV, http://www.fox19.com

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Oregon man gets wallet back after losing it in 1946

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This just makes you wonder what happened to his school id?  I’ll bet someone is using it to buy educational copies of Adobe Photoshop.

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Bill Fulton doesn’t remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past. The leather stayed smooth and the cowboy design unblemished. The zipper moved with ease. And when he looked inside, the contents brought back memories from 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym.

Fulton’s Social Security card and bicycle license, bearing the address where he lived during his teenage years, were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War II ended.

“After that long, my gosh, it stayed in good shape,” Fulton told the Baker City Herald. “It’s hard to believe.”

Worker Nathan Osborne found the wallet – along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program – while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton’s door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.

“He was pretty much amazed,” Trindle said. “He just kept saying, ‘Thank you. Thank you so much.’ ”

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Lost Boy Found After 50 Years, WOW

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

I am not sure if this is actually true or not as they are waiting on DNA but being lost for 50+ years has to be a record!

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I think he looks older now icon smile Lost Boy Found After 50 Years, WOW

KALKASKA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man said Wednesday that pictures he found online led him to believe he could be the 2-year-old boy who vanished more than a half-century ago from a bakery on New York’s Long Island.

John Robert Barnes told The Associated Press he was doing online research within the past year to try to figure out who he really was, saying that from childhood he never felt as though he fit in with the family that raised him.

Barnes saw pictures of the missing boy’s mother when she was a young adult, thought the woman resembled himself at the same age and started to believe he might be Stephen Damman, who disappeared in 1955.

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