Old-tyme newspaper, reprised

I have always greatly enjoyed reading newspaper articles and magazine articles from bygone eras (specifically, pre-1920s). The writing style was much more enjoyable and engrossing, and I rarely notice it takes me twice as long to read the same amount of newsprint because I'm searching through my dictionary to learn what words mean.

Honestly, did people ever say, "Fracas?" Can't we stick with "rumpus" or "donnybrook?"

Moving on...

I propose a major-market (presumably weekly) version of that older style of writing, complete with old-fashioned advertisements to support.

Staff writers would, of course, have to wear fedoras or similarly-dated hats. And suspenders.

Odds are this wouldn't fly on its own. It might perhaps be far more enjoyable to simply see articles written in an older style inserted into modern papers.

Immediately after a dryly-worded article on the local sewer gas tragedy, an article ending with, "even his staunchest detractors could never challenge his wisdom in the matters of matrimony!" about a political figure's allowing his wife to rein him in.

I would probably pay extra just to see the word "vouchsafe" in print.