"And/or" as a conjunction.  Hilarious!  From Harpers, 1932.

The "oldest inhabitant," not the "quietest" — a correction from Harper's Bazaar, 1911.  This recalls a scene in Fawlty Towers, in which a dead man is assumed to merely be quiet.

Some good news via spirit writing -- "You were troubled once with evil spirits; but now they are no more.  They have bid adieu, and good spirits have come and are with you all the time."  From Modern Spiritualism by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, 1855.

Sometimes a magazine, like Absolutely Fabulous' Eddie Monsoon, wishes to be all the types of things.  The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, 1837.

"Er the Gobble uns'll git you ef you don't watch out!"  Date uncertain.

Here's spirit writing promising better days.  "You must not fear, brother, that you will be troubled with evil spirits any more.  No, brother; no more.  [Signed,] Your spirit-sister, Bliss."  From Modern Spiritualism by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, 1855.

"To 'spell' a word, we have to cast a spell or charm over it, to bring the letters into place so as to compel its meaning to appear, or cast a magic spell over the word, or bring together the letters which are potent to dissplve or unravel speech."  From Symbolic Mythology and Translation of a Lost and Forgotten Language by John Martin Woolsey, 1917.   Very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

The Last Sentence by Maxwell Gray (1893) has a doozy of a first sentence, with no fewer than four semicolons and an em-dash.  The last sentence of The Last Sentence?  It is: "One day, perhaps, the muffled echo might cease."

For reformation read separation, for hamper read transfer, for addressing read advising, for ministers read members.  From The Law Magazine and Law Review, 1856.

From Hoenshel's Advanced Grammar, 1899.

A son of Penn wasn't a son of man, in this correction from The Messenger of Peace, 1922.

The mole in molecules.  From The Story of a Secret and the Secret of a Story by Ismay Thorn, 1887.

These rows of asterisks are a veil of winking stars from the birth of creation, relating details that the author fears to describe.  From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.