The deity Fever, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.

From I Had to Know by Gladys Baker.

Tip of the day: erase your memories of 25 years in the future.  "If you take my advice, you'll forget all about 1995."  From 1970: Dark Shadows episode 1089.

There isn't anything anybody can do, because it's too late for a solution now ... and nothing, nothing can stop it.  Time is up; the crystal ball has spoken.  From Dark Shadows episodes 259, 585, 577, and 48.

"Be free of crippling leg sores."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.

"Two [trapped] miners had lived by eating a few candles."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.  

Good for him: "He's brimful of vitality.  Wine is helping him to success."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.

This is so typical of the disgusting anthropomorphism rampant in these old magazines.  They quote a hedgehog as saying, "We are very fat and lazy."  From Chatterbox, 1908.

Revisiting this advice, in poem form, for avoiding rattlesnakes in the desert.  From Martlet Magazine, 1966.

Good for him: "I never felt fitter in my life."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.

Here's how to fit two pianos into a tight space.  From Music for More than One Piano by Maurice Hinson.

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From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.

"I can handle all the problems that come to me directly, but not those over which I have no control."  From Dark Shadows episode 7.

We thought this band name was a Googlewhack, until we finally realized that it's two band names.  From the University of Mary Washington's 1991 yearbook.

"Why not picture yourself."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.

"Awake while other sleep!"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.

"You can get a dictionary too, for only a dime!"  From Improvement Era, 1941.

An extremely rare charm against fright, from Dressing Gowns and Glue by L. de G. Sieveking, 1920.