Modern newspapers are just too darn serious.  They could learn a thing or two from our printed past.


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Ice Cream - The Commonwealth (Frankfort), July 4, 1843

The Old Grind - The Frankfort Commonwealth, February 11, 1851

Idleness - The Frankfort Commonwealth, February 11, 1851

Flour -Eating Delinquents - The Paris True Kentuckian, May 18, 1875

A Henophone - The Clark County Democrat, February 9, 1881

Must Have Gotten Bored - The Clark County Democrat, February 9, 1881

Sparring Spuds - the Kentucky Gazette (Lexington), February 14, 1885

A "Parting" Shot - the Kentucky Gazette (Lexington), February 14, 1885 

Julius Caesar, gunslinger - The Louisville Courier, c.1890 

Just a Stranger - The Lexington Leader, August 11, 1945 NEW

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