How can I recover old emails from previous versions of Apple Mail?

I bought a new MacBook Pro Retina display in late 2013. I loaded all my applications and data from Time Machine since my old Mac had died. Unfortunately, the migration program didn't recover most of my email files. In one of the discussions here, it said this was a known problem, and I assumed my old emails were gone forever. For the most part, this wasn't a huge problem, but recently, I had cause to want maybe a dozen or so of those emails, so I went back to try to find a solution.
I did find a discussion here that told how to locate the old mbox file in Time Machine, copy it to the desktop, then import it to Mail. I was able to recover the mbox files without any difficulty, but when I try to import them (using "Files in mbox format"), I get a message saying, "No valid mbox files were found."
Most of the recovered mbox files are hierarchical (i.e., the mbox file shows as a folder in Mail), but I get the same message whether I try to import at the folder level or the mailbox level.
Any ideas? Could Text read the contents of the mbox files?

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