Flashback: They grow up so fast!

"Dominic Mishio, a 10-year-old Leduc Minor baseball player, keeps his eye on the ball."

Dominic Mishio is now an Alderman on Leduc city council.

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on May 7, 1995.

Flashback: One-stop shop

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on June 28, 1912.

Flashback: Early sensationalism

Apologies for the terrible photo. The tag line reads: "Too much baking has killed many a woman."

Really? I'd like to see some numbers on that.

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on June 14, 1912.

Flashback: Tell that to the people who wear their pajamas in public

I would like to draw your attention to the bottom of the photo (click to enlarge), where the writer's comments remain staggeringly relevant to today.

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on May 12, 1911.

Flashback: WIN

It's always doom and gloom with you journalist people, isn't it.

Appeared on Canoe.ca (a division of our parent company) on March 31, 2009.

Flashback: You kids today don't know how easy you have it ...

A series of ads about the "miracle of modern electric living" appeared in the Leduc Representative throughout 1959.

Flashback: Relax ...

Appeared in the Jan. 13, 1911 issue of the Leduc Representative.

(Yeah, I'm immature. Don't lie — so are you.)

Flashback: You see Jimmy, when a man and a woman love each other very much ...

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on Jan. 11, 1962.

Flashback: Probably

Ads for dubiously effective cure-all pills appeared in most newspapers up until about the early 1960s. This one appeared in the Leduc Representative in December 1959.

Flashback: Oh, they're talking about baseball

"The Claresholm Review says the boys of that town have been in their holes long enough and they're going to crawl out and shake themselves, locate the old diamond, hunt up last year's sphere with Spaulding on the cover, root their old stick out from behind the door, peel off their coats, throw off their collars and see if they can swat the leather, throw a corkscrew or steal a base."

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on March 15, 1907.

Flashback: Tips for the budding fashionista

"Plaids are even better liked for the small girl's suits than they are for her older sisters. Often she wears a plaid dress, with a thoroughly boyish top coat of covert cloth or melton. But the little plaid suits are most girlish and attractive and, best of all, from a mother's standpoint, are preferable to plain cloth in that they seem not to spot nor soil so readily.

Like her older sister again, the little girl's skirts are carefully shaped — gored and made to flare. Circular models, for obvious reasons, are tabooed for her."

Appeared in the Leduc Enterprise on March 1, 1907.

Flashback: Slow news week

Appeared on the front page of the Leduc Representative on February 23, 1912. FYI: There are weeks when it's awfully tempting to reuse this particular idea.

Flashback: Happily ever after?

Appeared in the Leduc Representative on April 29, 1965. No word on whether Cinderella was ever reunited with her missing shoe.

Flashback: I assume they don't mean the politicians?

Appeared in the Leduc Representative Friday, May 5, 1911.

Flashback: Nice excuse

Appeared in the Leduc Rep Friday, Jan. 19, 1912.