Even more information about Life in TSI AU Smallville Part Two
Newspapers
* Smallville Ledger Headlines and References
o Smallville News Group, Inc.; www.smallvilleledger.org
o Smallville Ledger: A Division of LexMedia [Sign now outside headquarters]
Prior Freshman Year
o [2 cents] October 31, 1938 - Broadcast Fools Nation, Smallville In Particular (photos of Orson Welles broadcasting 'War of the Worlds', farmers smashing radios)
o [25 cents weekday, 1.00 Sundays start] METEORS STRIKE SMALLVILLE! (October 17, 1989)
+ Hundreds Killed, Thousands Hurt, Including Livestock
+ Langs Smashed, Water Tower Destroyed
+ Luthor Son Now Bald
+ Green Rocks Everywhere
+ Squirrel Resembling Abraham Lincoln Found
+ Parade Planned to Distract Joyless Citizenry
o Lana Lang Wins 4th Straight Little Miss Smallville Pageant
o Unusually Large, Ugly Baby Born
o Child Born With Head Backward, Doctors Baffled, Parents Sickened
o Girl Has 3 Fingers On One Hand, 7 On Other
o Dog kills cat, self
o Luthor Buys Land
o Ross Family Sell Out! Corn Out, Crap In
o [35 cents-special] Meteor Strike 1 Year Remembrance: Today We Remember - Tomorrow We Won't (October 16, 1990)
o Luthor Builds Fertilizer Plant
o Fertilizer Smell #1 Local Issue; Edges Out No Fat Chicks Ordinance
o Luthor Survives Brush with Cow
o Hooray! Luthor Mansion Completed!
o Prof. Hamilton Says Meteor Rocks Safe, Tests Inconclusive
Beginning Eighth Grade
o [on sign outside Ezra Jebediah Obadiah Small Elementary School] Annual Christmas Pageant - "***1/2 Stars!" - Smallville Ledger
o Luthor Patron of Education! Awful School is Awful Rich
o Mutation Caught at Ol' Fishin' Hole; Is Fertilizer Plant Responsible? Clark Was Using Five Pound Test And Ordinary Worms; Chloe Was Just There For The Scenery
o Fishin' Hole or Fission Hole?; Luthor Denies Responsibility in Fish Flap; Count The Eyes, Mr. Luthor!
o Mayor McCheese Calls for Fertilizer Plant Investigation
o Luthor Pays City 3 Million...in Pennies!
o Mayor Visits City
o Local Youth Thinks Wrestling is Real (photo of Clark and Pete cheering on a wrestling match, Chloe frowns)
o Mayor Accidently Declares War on Grandville; Thousands Injured (illustrated with president at podium)
o Police Prepare Grandville Deportations; Patrol Steps Up Egg Bombing Campaign
o Peace Declared After Week Long War With Grandville [Smiling Citizens pictured]
o Spice Girls Hoax; Everyone Mad at Local Boy [Clark on cover] [Back has advertisement "Lost Our Lease"]
o Local Gays Show Their Pride [photo of Clark, Chloe]
o Big Fat Man Has Big Fat Heart; Little Thin Man Accused in Robbery
o KROK Cheats Straight A Student!! [photo of Chloe]
o Blue Devil Flick To Film In Smallville!
o Blue Devil Contest: Who Will Be Kid Devil?
o Local Youth Pete Ross Is Kid Devil!
o Pete Ross Disappears; Movie on Hold
o Pete Ross Meltdown: Too Much Too Soon
o HIX IN STIX LOVE HERO FLIX
o Local Man Loses Life; Beaver Rescue Falls Short
Beginning Freshman Year
o MOGUL'S SON MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES CAR CRASH, FISH KILLED
o Scarecrow Victim Returns, Electrocutes Self
o Youth Bugs Out, Kidnaps Girl
o Coach Arnold Wins Game, Loses Life
o Lex Robs Bank, Needs Spare Change
+Editorial: Robber Not Lex, Shapeshifter Robs Bank
o Local Boy Now Frozen Block
o Kaptain Karrot Special Airs Today
o What is Beppo? Carnival Coming To Town
o Five Days til Beppo
o Carnival Returns To Town, Thousands Thrilled!
+ Beppo Here Today!
o Bloodbath At Carnival, Thousands Illed!
o Grandville Home to World's Biggest Pizza; Smallville Home to Cadmus-Katheryn NeoPharmecuticals
o Crisis at Cadmus Labs!
+ Captain Marvel Saves Town, Local Youth Helps
o Cornfield Classic Shocker!
o Snow Storm Wipes Out Smallville, Kids Lost
o Kids Found, Snow Storm Wipes Out Grandville
o Sullivan Girl Missing: Police Search For Body [Photo of Chloe Sullivan]
o Psychic Joins Sullivan Hunt [Photo of Psychic (woman with hat/earrings)]
o Chloe Alive! Town Relieved, Father Happy
o Kent Keeps Smallville Safe!
o Dozens Cheer Clark Kent
o Clark Kent Saves Sullivan Again!
o Watch Out, Here Comes Clark
o Enough Already Clark Kent!
o Zirconia Ztolen!!!
+ Cat-Woman-like Burglar Strikes Again; Is Nothing Safe?
o Cat Woman-like Burglar Strikes 15 Homes; Man Marries Woman in Wedding Ceremony
o Luthor Enters Gubernatorial Race; 3 Eyed Fish In Every Pot?
o Luthor Skyrockets to Seven Percent in Latest Polls
o Luthor Band Wagon Rolls On; Latest Poll Puts Him at 22 Percent
o Luthor Nukes McCheese in Latest Poll; Forty-Two Percent And Climbing
o Mayor McCheese Re-elected by Landslide; Two More Bodies Surface in Smallville Harbor
o Lex Proposes To Woman
o Lex Weds Woman
o Lex Annuls Marriage, Saves Fortune
o Deadbeat Dad Beat Dead
o Kickin' Back; Fifty Ways to Waste Your Weekend
o Human Blimp Sees Flying Saucer
o Old Man Beats Meat (toreador Grampa Kent photo shown)
o [35 cents weekday, 1.00 Sundays start] Mayor McCheese's Proposition 24 on Ballot; Mayor McCheese Propositions 24 at Ballet
o Alcohol Prohibited in Smallville; Drunks Threaten to Leave Town
o City Goes Dry Today; Drunks Extend Deadline
o Alcohol Allowed in Smallville; Drunks Drunk In Drunken Celebration
o Local Snoop Discovers Morgue Hustle (picture of a smirking Chloe Sullivan)
o Food Supply Cut Off - Even Pies
o Luthor to Open Recycling Plant; Everything Thrown is New Again
o Neutron Bomb Headed for Smallville
o Gruesome murders at Luthor Mansion; Lex Safe, No Arrests Made
o It's Our World At War
o Price Hike Approved By Ownership
o [50 cents weekday, 1.75 Sunday] First Day of Spring - Ants, Picnickers, Reach Last-Minute Accord [dated March 21]
o Pair Sinks Judge's House - Quilt Ruined (Picture of Chloe and Clark)
o Kents Arrested in Riot - Even Bessie
o Slow News Day Grips Smallville
o Medical Marijuana Outlawed [bong in red circle strikeout on cover]
o J. KENT Trial Starts Today [picture of Jonathan]
o Record Heat Wave Continues
+ Cows Catch Fire In Fields
o Crazed Mom Goes Topless Photos Pages 3-28; TV Rabbit Saves Day
o Teacher Nominated for Award: Will She Leave Old Life Behind?
o Drunk Cop Fired From Force; Private Eye Wins Bake-Off
o Local Kids Lead Charge In Cleanup (Picture of Chloe, Clark, Lana and Pete); Mayor McCheese Shoots Wife
o LIFEWAYS Weekend Edition
+ Cover: Little Miss Smallville; Ale Of The Pup [Shelby seen drinking Koul-Brau]
+ Inside: Baby Saved By Local Hero, Not Father
o "Families Come First" On Ballet - Second Headline Less Important, Studies Show [Photo of Martha Kent with arms crossed]
o "Men Come First" Deemed Wrong By Smallville Females
o Beloved Hero Cheats Death (referring to Luthor)
o Chloe's a Total Wacko, Implies Father [photo of Chloe talking to a rubber duckie]
o Chloe Loves Clark [separate photos of Chloe and Clark]
o (framed in The Wild Coyote) Triple Murder At The Wild Coyote (picture of The Wild Coyote)
o Hail Drought Continues; Tin Roofs Undented
o Chloe Rescues Clark! No, Really! (Illustrated with photo of Chloe with arm around Clark)
o L'il Starmaker Fever Sweeps Smallville! (illustrated with a picture of Kaptain Karrot)
o 10-Year-Old Boy Disqualified From Contest- Is Actually Tom Welling (illustrated with Tom Welling in cuffs led away by the police)
o L'il Starmaker Down To Three Finalists (illustrated with photo of Chloe, Alicia Baker and Lana Lang)
o Permissive Lifestyles on Rise - Bible Mocked
o Fanboys Riot At Comics Store, Stan Lee Cancels [picture of a crazed Pete]
o Latest Supervillian Seizes Town
o Super-Powered Criminal Steals Sun - Mayor Offers Sacrifices (illustrated by picture of eclipsed sun and Mayor McCheese holding a lamb and a goat)
o Aliens Okay Slavery Plan [photo of General Zod and Phantom Zone allies]
* A Lana's Food Review in the Smallville Ledger
o Thar, She Blows!
* Other Newspapers
* Smallville Apartment Finder - "We Put You in Your Place"
o Advertisement within:
Roommate Wanted For Three Bedroom Apartment
Spacious, city view, only $200 a month. Call KLN-5555 ask for Lana or visit between 9am- 5pm at The Talon, Smallville.
* The Sullivan Times (mock newspaper Gabe makes for Chloe)
o My Daughter, The Hero [Illustrated with photo of Chloe]
* Metropolis Inquisitor
Largest Circulation of Any Paper That Sells for 75 cents
o Bigfoot Still At Large
o I Married Bigfoot; Shocking Interview Inside
o Bigfoot's Wife Pleads: "Call Him Jonathan!"; Lurid Details Inside
o The Bigfoot Diet: "Pork Chops Aplenty"; Tasty Recipes Inside
o [Smallville Ledger Editor to Lois Lane] I want you to over hype this story so much it makes the Metropolis Inquisitor look like the Metropolis Daily Planet! Or the Metropolis Daily Planet look like the Metropolis Inquisitor. I forget which one the good one is.
* Metropolis Daily Planet
o Sign outside awards ceremony: The Good Guy Awards "Pointless"
o Jonathan: "Why are you reading the Metropolis Daily Planet, Clark? You don't live in Metropolis !"
o [Smallville Ledger Editor to Lois Lane] I want you to over hype this story so much it makes the Metropolis Inquisitor look like the Metropolis Daily Planet! Or the Metropolis Daily Planet look like the Metropolis Inquisitor. I forget which one the good one is.
* The Flippy Hair Press [Chloe's self-published newspaper]
o Chloe to Luthor: "Drop Dead" [parody of Ford to City Daily News]
o Clark's Football Picks [Illustrated with picture of Clark picking]
o Political cartoon of Lionel Luthor.
o Nyah, Nyah, We're Back! Chloe Rules, Luthor Drools
* Smallville High Torch Newspaper
o Sham Chowder by Chloe - Photo by Pete Ross (photo of Clark spitting into the soup)
o Science and Creatures; Shaggy Man Hunt; Reward Offer $5000.00 alive; Details Inside
o America's Favorite Pencil; #2 is #1
o Bullies Hospitalized: Nerds, Dorks Cautiously Rejoice (no photo)
o Never Too Busy... [Alicia Baker and Jodi Melville studying]
* Smallville Fertilizer Plant Employee Newsletter ['Current' Events]
o Work Accidents Reach Record Low
o Output up 15 Percent
o Management Caves in Condiment Outrage
* The Pete Press - a "newspaper" that Pete made playing with Clark
o Playtime is Fun
o Extra! Extra! Clark Smells!
* Daily Eighth Gradian - Ezra Jebadiah Obadiah Small Middle School
o Lana to Pete: Eat My Shorts (8th grade class president race)
o School Elections Today Are you a Lana or a Pete? Take Our Quiz
o Lana Defeats Pete (with picture of Lana holding up "Extra!!! Pete Beats Lana" school paper)
o Foodfight Foiled Fishsticks Seized
o Lana Lang, Eighth Grader, asks for the society page
o In-De No-Pants Day!
* Clark's gag headline on mock newspaper, From the Carnival, a present from Chloe
o Clark Named World's Greatest Sex Machine
* Action Bulletin News
* Central City Picture News
* Gotham Gazette
* Grandville News-Guardian
o 25 cents in Grandville, 75 cents in Smallville
obvious thanks to:
The Simpsons
Family Guy
and whatever other television/movie/book/comic reference I used to flesh out My Smallville!