Too few home remedies for sick dolls have conveyed.  A prescription from 1906 requires that no clocks tick during the doll's illness.  Additionally, stairs mustn't creak, doors mustn't slam, and dogs must neither bark nor wag their tails.  (This we learn in Uncle Charlie's Poems by Charles Noel Douglas, 1906.)

Within the toy community, the murder-sucicide crisis is barely discussed.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.

From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922.

Last we checked, the hardcover of this book was nearly $900 on Amazon: Letters From the Dead by Campbell Black (our restoration of a poor scan).

"Dolls with a history -- and a mystery."  From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

From Life, 1900.

It's never disturbing to encounter things like this in an old yearbook.  From York Junior College's 1962 annual.

Reblog if you, too, never sleep, can see well in the dark, wander among the rocks and bushes all night long, and (referring to the chapter number here) are in financial ruin.  From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917.