From Cartoons Magazine, 1918.

Industrial waste used to be acknowledged with demon orifices.  From Jugend, 1896.

"Sick folks don't like noise."  From Expiation by Octave Thanet, 1890.

"Booklet advertising Peps tablets for coughs and colds.  Sensational cover (orange and blue) of a skull-faced Death in a swirling dark cloud over a city from which terrified inhabitants are fleeing on foot, in cars, bicycles and horse-drawn carriages.  Refers to deaths during heavy fogs in cities, bronchial asthma, bronchitis, colds, cough, sore throat, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, pleurisy, pneumonia and factory cough."  From 1913.

"We must make the best of that which is, and must believe it best for the present, and accommodate ourselves to it" (Matthew Henry, An Exposition of the Old and New Testament, 1839).  (Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.)