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Diana Ramirez-Simon

‘Incredibly overdue’: Minnesota library book returned more than 100 years later

rows of books and bound volumes of newspapers on shelves.
A Hennepin county resident discovered the book while sorting through a relative’s belongings. Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian

The book on famous composers from the St Paul public library in Minnesota must have been a really good read.

It was more than a century overdue when it was finally returned recently.

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