From the October 31, 1936, issue

TOMBSTONE PROPER EXIT FOR THE HALLOWE’EN SPIRITS

If you see a Hallowe’en ghost rising spookily from behind a tombstone in ye olde graveyard, night of Oct. 31, don’t laugh.

For tombstones are the proper and conventional exit doors for spirits. No less authorities than the ancient Egyptians established that point of behavior thousands of years ago.