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On Jan. 3, 1929, the Union published a long front page interview Wilma Frances Minor. Minor, a former actress and Union columnist, had recently created a sensation when she produced a collection of love letters allegedly written from Abraham Lincoln to Ann Rutledge and passed down through her family. One problem: the Lincoln love letters were forgeries. Minor eventually confessed the letters were not actually written by Lincoln. She said they actually had been dictated from the spirit world, using her mother as the medium. From the San Diego Union, Thursday, January 3, 1929: Forgery of Lincoln Letters Impossible, Says San Diego Woman, Author of Articles