A copper box buried for a century behind the Cleveland Elementary School cornerstone didn’t hold a singing frog in a top hat or a stash of gold coins.
But the 1910 time capsule, opened Wednesday in front of San Francisco schoolchildren, teachers and city officials, was full of treasure nonetheless.
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The box contained a variety of documents, including a salary schedule for teachers in San Francisco and the 1909 California school law. There was also a letter from the Excelsior Homestead Improvement Association to a future mayor of San Francisco.
"The city of San Francisco has just about recovered from the effects of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 and is now on a fair way to gretaer prosperity than ever," the organization said, in a letter that was not completely free of typos.
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