sandwiched in between the competing haberdashery ads is what i can say with some certainty is the most boring headline ever written

🤣🤣🤣 that's awesome

This rabbit hole has now led me to this neat paragraph from the Oct 1912 edition of The Atlantic

::buying the paper to read hat ads instead of the news::

This is geeky but this headline suggests that at one point some Americans used plural verbs after singular collective nouns such as “Board”, much like the Brits still do today

I once reported on cement crushing at a concrete testing lab and it was quite possibly as dull as seeing a hydraulic press in use could be