You may have wondered whether the beautiful people are grown in vats by demons.  This headline confirms that "Demonland grows beauties" and that it's cheaper that way.  From The Current Sauce, 1956.

"A thousand times no!"  From Together, 1961.

Of course now they tell us the very opposite, not to pile all our meals atop bread.  It's hard to know what to believe anymore.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.

"Tight shoes cause death."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.

"The shadow of your life is influencing others for evil or for good."  From The Lighted Pathway, 1962.

The unisex fashion movement in the United States came and went in 1968 (according to The Atlantic), but it hit Australia eight years earlier.  "His or hers — it's all the same."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.

Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.

"Don't put me out to pasture."  From Together, 1961.

Too easy!  A better word than "delicious" is "scrumpdiddlyumptious."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.

From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.

Q: "Is anybody out there?"

A: If our own viewership stats are indicative, nope: there's nobody out there.  That's why we had to resort to a Spirit Applause-O-Meter.

Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.

Illustration by Dick Siebert.  From Purple Parrot, 1941.

From Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller, 1982.

Here's a precursor to Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins holding a haunted painting.  "The shades will not vanish," from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.

"Demons continue to fool experts."  From The Current Sauce, 1973.

"Holidays are too numerous."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.  

"Loving unlovely people."  From Lighted Pathway, 1960.

"As darkness slowly crept upon us, I could sense a real feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment."  From Taylor Magazine, 1972.

"The town the 'Dirty Devil' took."  From Improvement Era, 1951.

"Saucers 'Dad' thinks they're living forces.  He's ready for them."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.