{"id":1380,"date":"2014-10-30T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2014-10-30T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:38:44","slug":"halloween-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in the (Old) News"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Halloween<\/a>
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. October 31, 1914.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking for a last-minute Halloween costume idea? Check out the Philadelphia Public Ledger from 100 years ago! (click on image above)<\/p>\n

For more newspaper features about old Halloween customs, visit the Library of Congress Topics in Chronicling America<\/a> page. Read all about the holiday’s old traditions, such as rituals carried out by young ladies in the hope of revealing the face of their future husband:<\/p>\n

\"Halloween<\/a>
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. October 31, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Halloween<\/a>
Washington Times. October 22, 1899.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Disclaimer: we cannot be held responsible for any bodily harm you may come to if you seriously decide to attempt this nonsense!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for a last-minute Halloween costume idea? Check out the Philadelphia Public Ledger from 100 years ago! (click on image above) For more newspaper features about old Halloween customs, visit the Library of Congress Topics in Chronicling America page. Read all about the holiday’s old traditions, such as rituals carried out by young ladies in … Continue reading Halloween in the (Old) News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHalloween in the (Old) News - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/\",\"name\":\"Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"description\":\"A joint effort between the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/files\/2014\/10\/PhilEveningLedger19141031-p12-HalloweenIdeas.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/\",\"name\":\"Halloween in the (Old) News - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-30T19:33:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-10-30T19:38:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2014\/10\/30\/halloween-old-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\",\"name\":\"Louisa Trott\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/248de97c24fafb9aaf91f3883154fb4a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Louisa Trott\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}