From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 11, 1911:

“11-11-11. No, that is not a set of signals for a football game, or the mysterious combination that is the key to a game, but that was the way you wrote the date today on your letters was it not? Surely for this was the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1911. Next year this peculiar thing will happen again when on the 12th of December, this will be the correct dating: 12-12-12. But no one living at the present probably will be alive to hear the same thing after next year, for what reason you say? Because the combination can not occur again until 2001. He who lives that long will have the distinction of being a very aged person indeed, breaking all world’s records. But on the first of 2001, one may write it 1-1-1.”

“It didn’t take long for the cold wave to materialize once it made itself known by a breath of cold wind that it was coming. The wind this morning came strong from the south, but all the wiseacres said that it would change very soon. The sky clouded over in an ominous manner giving hint of bad weather, but the weather man knew there was a football game on so he blew the clouds away. Then the icy breezes came. The temperature dropped from 71 1/2 degrees to 21 degrees at one o’clock.”