Old News

From Lighted Pathway, 1974.

"A rose is a rose is a rose, sometimes ...?"  From B.A.R., 1976.

From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 yearbook.

"Names for towns are very unusual in some parts of Kentucky.  Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel are some of them."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  

"Don't gulp life."  Probably decent advice.  From Together magazine, 1967.

"One of the most amazing methods of countering the supposed influence of the Evil Eye makes a delightful centerpiece for your garden."  From Fate Magazine, 1990.

From Lighted Pathway, 1974.

Ah, bless: "Alone and friendless."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.

If you've ever wondered where Easy Street leads, it goes through Europe.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.

From Together, 1967.

From Purple Parrot, 1939.

"Euphoria anyone?"  From Woroni, 1965.

Here's mentioned a ghost named Murgatroid Q. Schnellbessenbinder.  It's said that one can't catch a ghost unless one knows its name, and this news item is a good example of why it's pointless to guess at a ghost's name.  From Current Sauce, 1963.

"New Yorkers living too rapidly."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  

"Sixty-mile drives for caterpillars' food."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.

"Any day can be New Year's Day."  And any night can be New Year's Eve, for recall that the former Pleasure Island nighttime entertainment complex at Walt Disney World celebrated New Year's Eve every evening of the year.  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.

"The passing year was erratic and topsy turvy."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.

"The nightmens' dance."  From Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn's 1920 yearbook.

"But who is the Foe?  Who is the Friend?  What value is there to life when the time is out of joing?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.

"New light on the fall of man.  Flood preceded fall, according to newly discovered tablet.  Sat it was Noah who ate from tree of life."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.