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Antique safe cracked; it contained...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A volunteer safecracker opened a 450-pound, Victorian-era safe in front of Connecticut news crews, but the treasure inside wasn't quite headline-grabbing.

"Like we need this now," laughed Nancy Zorena, president of the Monroe Historical Society, as she held up a slip of paper with the combination to the safe, the Connecticut Post reported.

The safe, discovered behind a Monroe church furnace in December, also contained some newspaper clippings, a poem and four wooden tokens from Missouri.
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