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Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« on: July 25, 2024, 02:20:20 pm »

Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore - complete with fascinating handwritten message

DAILYMAIL.COM
By BETHAN SEXTON
24 July 2024

A greetings card designer stumbled upon what is believed to be the world's oldest message in a bottle while walking along the Jersey Shore.

Amy Smyth Murphy, 49, was strolling along a beach at Corson’s State Inlet in Ocean City when she spotted an unusual looking bottle at the water's edge.

'I just thought, "This is so peculiar. What is this?''' Smyth Murphy told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

After some research, she managed to determine that the message in a bottle likely dates back as far as 1876 - which would make it the oldest artefact of its kind.

Most intriguing was a barely legible, handwritten note found inside the bottle which reads: 'Yacht Neptune off Atlantic City, New Jersey. Aug. 6 - 76.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13669531/woman-discovers-worlds-oldest-message-bottle-jersey-shore.html
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2024, 04:25:53 pm »
I thought for sure it would say, "EPsTEin did NOt KiLL HImSeLF."
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2024, 06:51:21 pm »
Drink more ovaltine...
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2024, 07:07:01 pm »
I would have thought it would have said "HELP ME!!!"
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2024, 04:51:23 pm »
was it from Snooki?
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2024, 05:06:18 pm »
Quote from: 240B on July 25, 2024, 02:20:20 pm
Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore - complete with fascinating handwritten message

DAILYMAIL.COM
By BETHAN SEXTON
24 July 2024

A greetings card designer stumbled upon what is believed to be the world's oldest message in a bottle while walking along the Jersey Shore.

Amy Smyth Murphy, 49, was strolling along a beach at Corson’s State Inlet in Ocean City when she spotted an unusual looking bottle at the water's edge.

'I just thought, "This is so peculiar. What is this?''' Smyth Murphy told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

After some research, she managed to determine that the message in a bottle likely dates back as far as 1876 - which would make it the oldest artefact of its kind.

Most intriguing was a barely legible, handwritten note found inside the bottle which reads: 'Yacht Neptune off Atlantic City, New Jersey. Aug. 6 - 76.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13669531/woman-discovers-worlds-oldest-message-bottle-jersey-shore.html

This smells funny to me.

The bottle was supposedly cast into the Atlantic Ocean from off the shore of Atlantic City in 1876. And then in the entirety of that ocean it came back to shore just a few miles south of its point of origin?

And the bottle is nice and clean with no marine growth on it? No algae, no barnacles, no mussels? Really?

Yah, I don't think so.
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2024, 05:45:15 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on July 25, 2024, 06:51:21 pm
Drink more ovaltine...

A crummy commercial! Sonofabitch.
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2024, 04:37:10 am »
Quote from: MeganC on July 29, 2024, 05:06:18 pm
This smells funny to me.

The bottle was supposedly cast into the Atlantic Ocean from off the shore of Atlantic City in 1876. And then in the entirety of that ocean it came back to shore just a few miles south of its point of origin?

And the bottle is nice and clean with no marine growth on it? No algae, no barnacles, no mussels? Really?

Yah, I don't think so.
It should have had barnacles  or the bases at least, and it's unlikely it isn't frosted from being rolled in the sand somewhere. The only way I can see the bottle staying clean is for it to have fetched up in a marsh somewhere and only recently been washed back out.
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2024, 05:51:47 pm »
"We have been trying to reach you about your buggy's extended warranty..."
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Re: Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2024, 06:16:06 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on August 02, 2024, 05:51:47 pm
"We have been trying to reach you about your buggy's extended warranty..."





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