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Bibliophiles Delighted By Garbage Bonanza

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Bibliophiles flocked to the trash barrels Monday when someone discovered that Widener Library had discarded a mountain of 19th and early 20th century newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets.

"A Liberator, I've found a Liberator," rose an excited cry. Cheers and laughter followed the discovery. Ancient copies of the Boston Evening Transcript, New England Farmer, and the Fashion Herald were trampled underfoot in the stampede to find a precious Liberator. When the search was exhausted, people collected the less exotic relics, such as Intourist travel folders.

Garbage collectors often interrupted their rummaging to read the cartoons in the back of the papers and magazines. Ultimately the last bit of trash was swallowed by a garbage truck, and a straggling Cliffle, clutching papers in one arm and a bent pipe of artistic value in the other, sighed and headed home.

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