Message in a Bottle is found in Montclair State’s College Hall

Robert Kanaby, a demolition laborer, recreates the discovery of a message in a bottle during the restoration of the historic College Hall on the Montclair State University campus. Using a chipping hammer to break bricks six feet high and three layers thick, “I hit a void and I heard glass break,” he recalls. “And I’m like, ‘something’s not right.’ So, we took away the debris and I found the glass and then I found the note.”
Dated July 3, 1907, the note reads: “This is to certify that this wall was built by two bricklayers from Newark, N.J., by the names of William Hanly and James Lennon, members of No. 3 of the B.M.I.U. of America.”
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I hope you place that note and one of your own and place in a bottle to seal in the wall.

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Montclair State graduate 1975. Neat story.

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What did it say ?

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Dated July 3, 1907, the note reads: “This is to certify that this wall was built by two bricklayers from Newark, N.J., by the names of William Hanly and James Lennon, members of No. 3 of the B.M.I.U. of America.”

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That’s my dad