If the walls of the Point Reyes Lighthouse could talk, we now have an idea of the kind of history they would relay. Earlier this month, while removing a set of wooden panels during the structure’s $5 million restoration project, workers discovered a trove of newspapers from 1929. The five papers were nestled in a wooden box, along with a piece of wood painted with the names of the pair who created the time capsule: lighthouse keeper G.W. Jaehne and his assistant H.W. Miller. Four of the papers were from the San Francisco Examiner and one was from The Defender, a local paper that covered Marin and Sonoma Counties. “They were actually really well preserved,” park spokesman John Dell’Osso said. It was a reminder, he noted, of the historical nature of the lighthouse. “I was like a kid in a candy shop just looking at the headlines,” he said. Among the things that made the headlines in 1929: a list of prominent candidates for the Hoover administration’s cabinet, Amelia Earhart’s visit to Marin to attend a derby, and the appointment of San Francisco’s new prohibition administrator (“Walker promises common sense regime without fanaticism”). “It’s a fascinating glance into life here at Point Reyes, in San Francisco, and the country, and is a reminder that some of the issues debated today have been with us a long time,” Cicely Muldoon, superintendent of the Point Reyes National Seashore, said in reference to stories on immigration and sports. The newspapers will be added to the park’s museum collection, where visitors can see for themselves the history once literally embedded in the lighthouse’s walls. Mr. Dell’Osso said it was possible that, before construction ends on the landmark, the park will consider creating a similar time capsule from 2018. “I think it’s a fun, neat idea, and we could do something like that,” he said.