One I came across from the Montreal Gazette a while ago. Something that will both amuse anyone who is immature, while showing how the meaning of language has changed over the years. Second paragraph of the story to the right, "Babe Pratt ousted on gambling count":
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...6083%2C4451472
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Originally Posted by frinkprof
This is awesome. Seems to be some rather large holes in the availability of editions though. For example, try to look up any of the dates during the Olympics.
Hopefully more get added.
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I hope so too. What is up now represents only about half of the Herald's archives for that time. The oldest edition they have is from 1888, when the cost was 25 cents
a week!