AUBURN, Calif. -- A little girl from Whittier whose father passed away wrote a letter to him on the sides of a star-shaped balloon and then released it into the sky. Her message traveled hundreds ...

Welcome back to Pink! The Sunday Datebook arts and entertainment section went pink on Nov. 22, 1959, and its idiosyncratic look quickly became one of those "only in San Francisco" kind of things.

Photographer Stuart, who found the rolled-up letter attached to a blue balloon on a field behind Balmule House, near Townhill, told the Dunfermline Press: “This was too sad to ignore.

The envelope is labelled "par ballon monte" - for delivery by hot air balloon Australia's National Archive is trying to establish how a letter flown out of Paris by balloon during the Prussian ...