"Peter Puck wants to know if a first violin ever plays second fiddle."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

Today's necktie preserves are from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1938.

"Can mice be kings?"  From Starting Points in Language Arts, Level 3 by Kambeitz & Roth, 1977.

"I wish to thank you for your pretty flowers at my death."  Spirit writing from 1944.

"You don't suppose my time bender has anything to do with it?"  From Timescope, Teacher's Guidebook by Alec Allinson, 1974.

"Peter Puck wants to know if the bandmaster has to pay the piper."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

"Climb out of the pits of hell if that is where you be."  From Dark Shadows episode 792.

"Out of the sky he dropped -- into the back yard -- and into Judy's heart.  But he was an aviator -- and her father."  From The Old Line, 1940.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1916.

"Like tacks, we can go no farther than our heads will let us."  From The Improvement Era, 1958.

"The good doctor had a fatal curiosity.  Now he doesn't have it anymore."  From Dark Shadows episde 341.

From Ace Finlay's Soul Anarchy VI.

From Wee Wisdom, 1923.

A spirit message from 1932: "I got too tired to go any further.  I thought I would get some sleep here before visiting the morgue?  Do you recognize me?" 

From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

"Do not snore on satin sofas."  From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.

"We made a spaceship.  We went up to the moon in it.  Yes, No."  From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.

The cartoon model is "pretty as a picture," and the picture that she's pretty as is the mascot of the face-powder being advertised.  From Vanity Fair, April 1916.  (Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan)

"Peter Puck wants to know if bakers get all they knead."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.

"You've used your spells and potions and incantations."  From Dark Shadows episode 385.