SCRANTON, Pa. — A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950. Scranton's The Times-Tribune reports a mail carrier delivered the calendar 63 years late without explanation on Friday. The large tube contained a 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar addressed to James Flanagan, former general manager of The Scranton Times. The calendar includes a holiday greeting from a railroad executive dated December 1949. Flanagan died that month. A US Postal Service spokesman says lost mail is sometimes found when a machine is dismantled or office space is renovated. Times-Tribune publisher Bobby Lynett says he'll see if the Steamtown National Historic Site railroad museum is interested in the calendar. If not, he'll display it in the newspaper's offices. — AP
