"Rebecca" was checked out in 1973 from the Enderlin, N.D. Library and found its way home at an advantageous time.

March 10 (UPI) --An 81-year-old woman going through boxes of her mother's belongings made a surprising discovery: an overdue library book checked out by her grandfather 99 years earlier.

Sorting through them after the move, Cooper, 81, discovered an artifact — a library book 99 years past due. “I was looking through the books and found one about (building) toys for boys and ...