I am sure you are a very knowledgeable person in the matter of newspapers and the like but I regret to inform you that for once you are wrong. While I understand that it does take a lot of care to preserve something so valuable sometimes happenstance works as well! We found this in an old box grouped with other papers from the forties and even earlier (yes I know the Titanic didn't sink in the forties, please see above for backstory). The box was so full of papers that most of the papers had to be condensed considerably, you can see the very distinct crease that only comes with age and compression. I doubt any air had reached the paper in decades and as for light and heat and water it was kept in a basement on a storage shelf away from light and heat since basements are naturally around 50-70 degrees depending on the outdoor conditions. As for hand oils my father and I thought of that immediately upon seeing what it was and only gripped the edges which are already quite frayed, the picture actually makes them look better, and looked through it while resting it on a table, so I don't quite know where the hand is coming in? Also the paper is extremely dry and brittle and even unfolding it, caused it to crack a little on the backside.

In conclusion yes it is a neat souvenir, one that been around for nearly a century! Do you have any "souvenirs" like that?