Atheist Physics Teacher

In my local paper, The Long Island Advance, there is a weekly (as is the paper) segment titled From the Archives of the Long Island Advance, in which they present some news clips from 100, 75, and 50 years ago. A lot of the news is so mundane that I find it to be very funny. I hope that you do too.


From 100 years ago:

• Miss Mae Andrus entertained a dozen of her school girl
  friends with music and games, it being her 12th birthday
• A curiosity in the shape of a pretty white rat with pink
  eyes was caught in the barn of C.M. Hedges in East Patchogue.
• Local firemen are discussing the possibilities of securing
  a siren whistle as a fire alarm.

From 50 years ago:

• The three pupils of the Brookhaven School who took the
  Regents examinations had the following marks: Ruth Ballard,
  arithmetic 100, spelling 88; Elsa Kip, arithmetic 96,
  spelling 88; Elizabeth Kuzmech, arithmetic 93, spelling 88.
• Miss Marion Byers of Bellport is attending the ice carnival
  at Williams College in Massachusetts.