"Ghost rockets over sweden."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2009.

The problem with headlines asking you for the time is that you have to write a letter to the editor in order to respond that you have no idea because you don't wear a watch.  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.

"Believed in a 'hobo heaven.'  Bums will have paradise of own, creed of dead sailor."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.

From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

"Previous experience may prove harmful."  From Current Sauce, 1970.

"Robbed by bandit garbed as a ghost."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  

"Ever throw a knife at a blonde?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.

"British mermaids give up 'old duds.'"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  

"The sleepless.  Hundred and one noises keep her continuously awake from morning to morning."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.

We thought this band name was a Googlewhack, until we finally realized that it's two band names.  From the University of Mary Washington's 1991 yearbook.

You've heard of both the war on Christmas and "Christmas in July," and it all began July 20, 1941.  "War comes to the North Pole."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.

If you suspected this is how the news works, you were right.  "Headlines we had left over."  From Toike Oike, 1951.

"Aim for the stars but resolve for the moon."  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.

"Listening to a speck in the sky."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

"When hams discuss 'optimum spacing' in single band beams."  From 73 Magazine, 1968.

Six moths are hidden in this picture.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.

From ...And You Think You've Got It Bad by Barbara Fairchild Gramm.

"Weather man is afraid day is going to be pleasant.  Duluthians will enjoy it if his fears are correct."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  

"Is your dog the boss?"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.

"Have your brains aged to custard?"  From The Gateway, 1976.