This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iIB.2ACI/901 Message Board Post: In our day (2005) if you found a mitten, would you take it to the newspaper office, so they could publish a notice that it had been found??? WOW, a mitten must have really been valuable in 1896! The Blue Earth City Post Thursday, January 16, 1896 August R. Willmert has left a buckskin smoked mitten, lined inside which he found on the street last Saturday.