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Proof: California garbage collector turns trash into a hillside home

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-10T01:21:28Z","headline":"California garbage collector turns trash into a hillside home","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"timesofindia","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/in-1928-a-california-garbage-collector-began-building-a-one-room-shack-from-trash-over-50-years-beer-cans-car-parts-driftwood-and-shells-became-an-multi-level-hillside-home/articleshow/133958452.cms","v":1}

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82f85c3b0c6c6c56cfbb02eda6de32a10414d2a09a272a5b902fb0e3e3858e82

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• The story pageNot sealed — no capture of the story page was requested.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-82f85c3b0c6c.json prints 82f85c3b0c6c6c56cfbb02eda6de32a10414d2a09a272a5b902fb0e3e3858e82. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.