From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?

From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

This is the only instance of "Jimineezers" we've found in print.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

Though Wikipedia dates the oath "Sakes alive" from the 1930s to the 1950s, here it is in 1918.  Sakes alive, Wikipedia!  From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.

A squirrel turns the year. We, too, adopted squirrel time and have never looked back.  From Monmouth's 1910 yearbook.

A squirrel was a sophomore in zoology at Tulane in 1973.  We were unable to confirm that he eventually graduated.

From the Indiana State Teachers College handbook, 1951.

Reblog if the squirrel of temptation has corrupted you with the lure of ice cream, candies, tobacco, pipes, or billards.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook. 

"He found himself in a nest of huge size, with the owl prophet staring at him with big, yellow eyes."  From Tiny Red Squirrel by James Douglas Williams, 1919.

Playing leapfrog with a goat and a squirrel.  From Wide Awake, 1884.

Outta here.  From the Indiana State Teachers College handbook, 1951.

"Forlorn dog strangely attracted to squirrels -- on wheels."  From the Florida Flambeau, 1959.

Reblog if you, too, have stared at all the strange things.  From Happy Jack by Thorton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1920.

This is the best tiny goat, squirrel and fairy sailing on a tomato can that we've seen in a long while.  From In No-man's Land: A Wonder Story by Elbridge Streeter Brooks, 1885.

From Nebelspalter, 1886.

"It seemed as if that little voice inside had fairly shouted in his ears: 'I am afraid.'"  From The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thorton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1919.