Library book returned a century late in San Francisco

Responding to an amnesty on overdue loans, short-story collection is checked back in after 100 years by the original borrower’s great-granddaughter

As nominative determinism goes, Forty Minutes Late was a little understated for the title of a book returned to San Francisco library 100 years late.

The book was borrowed in 1917 by one Phoebe Johnson, from the San Francisco Public Library, as US troops sailed across the Atlantic to face the mud and bullets of the first world war trenches.

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