The legendary baseball coach Yogi Berra once said, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” and what is true in baseball seems to hold outside of the diamond as well. One of the joys of being a historian and purchasing a newspaper that is over a century old was the piles of old documents, photos, film negatives, and other assorted documents that had been collected for over 60 years by previous owners. While to the average visitor, these documents might seem little more than old curiosities collecting dust, to this author they are near-forgotten portals to the past so that we can see the world through the eyes of the people at the time. And one such recent document caught my gaze…