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Weeden stamping read right when looking in through the firebox door Jim!

Wonderful story, though sad as you say, and some wonderful research that you've done to be able to present it so well!!!

Great story, Jim! If not for that little note, Frank may have been forgotten forever, but here we are talking about him nearly a century after he had passed on.

I find this kind of thing very interesting. One of my favorite pastimes is buying old home movies from the 1930s to the 1970s at the flea market and trying to figure out who the people are in the films and where they lived. I feel like I’m in a time machine when I’m researching these films.

Jim, I'm inclined to think that Frank's younger brother Alfred may have penned the note. The signature looks like "anscerbo", as in "A.N. Scerbo". I guess we'll never know for sure.

Thanks for a wonderful and poignant video, Jim. 

Paula

Really enjoyed that one Jim

Thanks Nick and Arnold.