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The historic frigate, The USS Constitiution Is Rotting Away -- Who are you going to call?
The year was 1925 and ghostbusters were not available. So the US government decided to ask school children to send in pennies! I am not kidding.
1803 painting of USS Constituion.
The article below was in The Morris Chronicle on April 8, 1925.
Catch up on a history of the USS Constitution at the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
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