Update

As they were ripping up strata of various horrendous layers of flooring in the kitchen, the guys came across a 1954 magazine stuffed, in its entirety, beneath a "tasteful" green and gold vinyl faux tile layer. How odd. I'll write more about it later if there's anything interesting when I've had a chance to look at it. I suspect it was the same person that hid an entire 1945 issue of the Pontiac News in the cover of the fold-down ironing board. I decoupaged it onto the inside of a closet door.

Another thing that revealed itself in the kitchen was a hole in the original wood floor that was corked with...well, a cork. It's a cork from an old wine bottle. I have no idea what the hole was for.

One more paper item we found soon after we moved in was a map of Vietnam torn from a newspaper in 1962, and tacked inside a closet door. The headline reads "Where Our Boys Are."