The short note inside mentions a yacht based in Atlantic City called 'The Neptune,' along with a business card for W.G.&J. Klemm Gents' Furnishing Goods in Philadelphia.
The message could be the oldest in a bottle ever found.Amy Smyth Murphy was walking on the beach at Corson's Inlet State Park in Ocean City when she saw something unusual.It was early in the morning on July 3, and she says the glass bottle - corked with something inside - was right there on the sand."We made a group chat," Jack said. "Everyone was decoding it and looking things up.
She also rolled on the painstaking removal of the note inside, along with the research that followed.But for the past several weeks she has gone through old newspapers, Ancestry.com and Reddit groups on old bottles -- all leading Amy to believe the bottle is from 1876. "The outside of the bottle reads Barr and Brother Philadelphia," said Amy, hoping to learn more about the bottle and the company.
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