Overdue book returned to library after 73 years

(UPI) – A Scottish library said officials were stunned to open a package that arrived in the mail and find an overdue book that had been checked out 73 years earlier.

OnFife Libraries said the Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries received a package in the mail last week that contained a copy of Stately Timber by Rupert Hughes.

The book had been checked out from what was then known as the Dunfermline Public Libraries' Central Library and had been due back Nov. 6, 1948.

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