In 1899, a boy by the name of Mutt Baird (I didn’t make that given name up) borrowed a Webster’s Dictionary from the Lyn, 
Ontario Library. Then his family moved to the United States and the book went along with them.
Mutt’s great nephew found the volume in his sister’s attic in Denver, Colorado, and wanting to return it, wrote the Lyn Genealogical Society. The letter got misplaced for about 4 years, but was recently unearthed by the local museum’s curator. So last week, Dale Baird arrived in Lyn with the book. The library said they would waive the $9000 overdue fine.
Delivered to the City of Lyn 110 years after it left, the book really isn’t all that useful any more. It’s seems a bit out-of-date. If you were to look up the word “car” in this volume, it says that a car is “A modern invention unlikely to catch on.”
Read the story – and watch the video at the April 15, 2009 edition of the KCWS Television website.
