Divorce filing, Schedule B (division of chattels), August 1974 — item 41
- Origin
- Clerk of court, New Jersey
- Dated
- August 1974
- Extent
- 3 pages
- Status
- accepted
- Redactions
- The parties' names and the marital address. The purchaser is dead and his estate is quoted with the executor's permission; the petitioner has not been approached and this newspaper does not intend to.
Chain of custody
Located by a reader in Lisbon, Delfina Ferreira, who is named with her consent and who found it in three evenings using a genealogy subscription she pays for to trace her own grandmother. She sent this newspaper a county, a docket number and a schedule reference. We ordered the record from the clerk of court for $22, photographed Schedule B, and telephoned the estate of the purchaser, whose executor supplied the March 1974 receipt. She declined a fee twice and asked for a donation to a records-digitisation fund instead.
Held by: They Buried, document room; the court holds the original
Excerpt
SCHEDULE B — CHATTELS
41. One Babylonian tablet .................................. $180.00
Awarded to the petitioner.
[Four words. It is the eleven months this newspaper has reported as
unaccounted for at the foot of every story about this object since 2023.]
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
Filed as the answer to the longest-standing gap in the vault, and as the best argument this newspaper has for its own habit. The hole was closed by a reader who got tired of seeing it reported. A newspaper willing to look worse in the short term prints holes; holes printed often enough stop being embarrassments and become invitations.
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