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Elizabeth Roscio, archivist at the Old State House Museum, hands at right, helps in displaying the contents of a copper box removed from a lion statue at a studio, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 in Woburn, Mass. Historians and restorers opened the small copper box that has been hidden for more than a century inside the statue which has been sitting atop Boston's Old State House until it was taken down for refurbishing. Discovered inside the box were a hardcover book, along with papers from 1901, when the time capsule was sealed. Nothing was taken out of the box because of the items' fragile condition. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Contents of 1901 Boston time capsule revealed

By Bob Salsberg - Associated Press

In this Sept. 14, 2014, file photo, a lion statue is removed from atop the Old State House on Washington Street in Boston. The Bostonian Society on Thursday Oct. 9, 2014, hopes to delicately remove a time capsule that has been sealed inside the lion's head since 1901. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Dina Rudick) ** FILE **

Bostonian Society to unveil time capsule contents in Old State House lion

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times