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The message said to be sure and fill out name and address so "we
can send reward and tell you where and when this bottle was released." The Hollingsworths filled out the form but then had second thoughts. They were listed as "informante" and thought perhaps they would violate a law about communicating with Cuba. So they brought it back to Cranford and to the Chronicle.
The newspaper called Oliver Barker, the officer-in-charge of the Cranford Post Office, who said he was pretty sure that they could mail the letter to Cuba without violating anything. A letter is OK, but not materials or merchandise, he said. Check with the regional office to be sure, said Barker. The man in the postal mail classification department in Newark said the Hollingsworths could send a letter without any trouble, and it would get there. But sorry, no bottle. That didn't bother the Hollingsworths, who wanted to keep the bottle anyway, with its bottom carefully ballasted with sand and pieces of lead and the glass marked "Cuba." The Chronicle posted the letter containing the form for them. (By coincicence, the log number from the Cuban institute is the same number as the newspaper's post office box, 626).
Now the Hollingsworths will see if a "reward is indeed forthcoming."
From the Cranford Citizen & Chronicle, Thurs. Sept. 21, 1978, with a photo of Mr. and Mrs. Hollingsworth and the bottle and forms. Sent to HR be Mr Chapman Sullivan, our subscriber, of Margate, Florida. Mr. Edward B. Hollingsworth is also our subscriber, by coincidence! (We hope he will let us know the outcome of this.)
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HOLLINGSWORTH MISCELLANY Brief items on our surname. Send along any items you think might interest our readers.
(1) Chapman Sullivan sends us a clip from a Florida paper, June 3, 1978, titled NUDE COVERUP ADOPTED. The Legislature at Tallahassee has approved (June 2) a watered-down bill which makes merchants hide magazines which show pictures of nudes to keep them from the young folks. The bill in authored by Rep. Wayne Hollingsworth, Democrat of Lake City. It was sent to Governor Askew's desk when the HOuse voted 108 to 6 to approve changes made in the Senate. Opponents say the new restrictions will be knocked out as unconstitutional.
(2) Marion Hargrove of Santa Monica, California, donates a copy of a will in the Archdeaconry of Essex, England, dated 12 March 1574, of one John Glascocke, Stanford Rivers, County of Essex. To his two sons, Laurence and Mathewe, he gave his lease in Holingesorth Wodde, which he held by lease from one Mr. Ellyot. Proved 19 May 1575 Volume titled Gyll.
(3) Our cousin Miss Evelyn Purvis Earle as above, sent us a notice from an Ontario, Canada, paper, with the headline "Laborer pleads guilty in rape-robbery case." John Treadwell was to be sentenced Dec 1, 1978, by Mr. Justice A.H. Hollingworth of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
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