Old News

"I felt the tingle of the magic and fell unresisting."  From The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy, 1924.

"You'd be like me wondering how I came to be here, not troubled but not happy."  From the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1972 yearbook.

At first glance, we thought a love letter had been opened by mistake in a wolven building, which explained the seeming scratch marks in the second word of the headline.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.

"I want the ones that look like little pillows."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.

"When man wed a tree."  From The Occult Digest, 1929.

"Rogues playing with food."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.

"'Hard man, who?' as seen in the northern woods.  How giant lumbermen amuse themselves in bunkhouse—rough pastime demonstrates the endurance of the human body."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.

"Can spirits possess the dead?  The young girl died.  Then she sat up in bed and a series of strange voices began speaking from her lips."  From Fate Magazine, 1954.

"She chats with an Ambassador.  She lunches with a Prince ... and a nation breathes freely once more."  From Youth's Companion, 1927.

"True ghost story.  Mangled spook haunted railroad tunnel and hailed trainmen."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.

"A long day longer."  From Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's 1984 yearbook.

"The people who don't care don't bother."  From Memphis State University's 1973 yearbook.

"Palaces in kingdom come: famous men building them."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.

"Wanted.  A limited amount of money (in any sums)."  From The Religio-Philosophical Journal, 1891.

From Overload and Boredom by Orrin E. Klapp, 1986.

"She's the big wig in the wiggery."  From The Australian Women's Weekly,  1968.

"10 years with a ghost.  My cat stared as an invisible person walked into the room and stopped behind my chair."  From Fate Magazine, no. 52.

"Earth rushing next month towards a furnace.  But it will turn away in time."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.

"Would whistle on way by grave yard.  Then all will be well.  'If we can whistle as we pass the grave yard, we are going to be all right.'"  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.

From The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey, 1973.