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Surprisingly modern headline from 1867

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You'll want to read this coverage of Andrew Johnson's 1865 vice presidential inaugural address.

He had not uttered two sentences when everybody saw that something was wrong. "He is drunk," said one. "He is "crazy," said another. "This is disgraceful," said a third. Mr. Seward and the Ministers looked on the ground, or moved uneasily in their seats. The Judges of the Supreme Court manifested by their faces their pain and their surprise. Mr. Johnson was so proud of the dignity into which fate had thrust him that he boasted of it in the language of a clown and with the manners of a costermonger.
"And I will say to you, Mr. Secretary Seward, and to you Mr. Secretary Stanton and to you, Mr. Secretary---" Here he hesitated for a name, and according to the public report in the Washington papers of this morning, bent down and asked Mr. Hamlin if he knew who was Secretary of the Navy. Having been informed, he continued in the same loud tone, "And to you Mr. Secretary Welles, you all of you derive your power from the people." These words were uttered with strong emphasis upon the word 'you' which Mr. Johnson invariably pronounced 'yeoo!'
He pitched his voice as if he had been addressing a large multitude in the open air, and alternately whispered and roared in a manner that would have been ludicrous had it not been disgusting.

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Headline writers everywhere frantically switching between TAYLOR MADE and TAYLOR MIFFED

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If you want to receive your death certificate in a timely manner, please inform the Lancaster City Health Department one week in advance of your death

Thank you for your cooperation

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LIFE in the year 2024 A.D.:

UNDERGROUND CITIES!
PLAGUE!
A WORLD OF MADNESS!

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Sure, it's ludicrously cold, but it's a dry ludicrously cold.
--Albertans

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Doesn't seem very sturdy.

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The biggest contrast between "boring headline" and "amazing lede" I've ever seen.

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Predictions from 1974 about 2024:
-Inhabited moon
-Ear transplants
-Computers will control baseball

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A List of Predictions Made in 1924 About 2024

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Canada will have a population of 100 million

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Interplanetary travel will be as easy as trans-Atlantic travel

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Concerts will be performed remotely

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Debutantes will dye their skin all the colours of the rainbow

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Diamond engagement rings will be replaced with 100 pound bags of sugar

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Movies will bring about world peace

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Americans will laugh at radios

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Everyone will wear flying clothes

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Life expectancy will be 100 years – and 75 will be considered young

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Men will wear police-proof pockets

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Jazz music will be considered classical

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Movies will be so realistic that it will be difficult to distinguish them from real life

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New York City will have a population of 30 million -- and no transit problems

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The human family will be at the point of starvation

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Apartment buildings will be 100 stories tall

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Men will stop wearing corsets

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