When my Grandma's house, and my Aunt and Uncles house both got bought for a storage facility, the local VFD burned them for practice.
We had gone through both places and picked them clean, or so we thought. In my Grandma's house we found a tongue and groove pine, paneled wall that had been covered and no one remembered. Dad used some of the wood we got from there to build a hope chest for my niece, (his grand daughter).
We found nothing of worth in my Aunt and Uncle's place.....until it was too late. My Mom called me after the house was nearly on the ground, and the fire had been put out. Seems the whole living room had been layered with old news papers for carpet padding, just as you describe being done under the tile.
I wound up getting some stuff off about an 8x10 area, that wasn't damaged. Based on what I found, these papers dated from the early 50's until the early 60's. It's amazing to see the differences between then, and now days.
I love the old car adds, and the adds for the movies with folks like James Dean, etc. Then there are the classifieds which are always interesting. Best of all is the seeing the local articles touting things like the new housing developments being built just 'for the coloreds', a brand new mall (the first in the area) being built, etc.
I can't remember the date, but I also remember an article in one of them where it mentions that just before Kennedy was shot, they had passed a thing in Congress that cleared up a confusion in the transfer of power in the Government, should something happen to the President, etc, etc. I can't remember the details, but prior to that, there was some question as to who actually took over from whom, at some level.
Interesting stuff to say the least. I don't know about storing them 'properly' but all of mine are in a box, and out of the sun. I figure they survived close to 60 years being walked on under a carpeted floor, and having the house burned around them, so they can survive in a cardboard box for a bit longer.
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