Old News

"Don't be an office ostrich."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

"Flirting with death," from Popular Mechanics, 1927.

"Dark light promises way to talk with Mars."  We, too, use dark light to talk with Mars.  Therefore, this is one of the very few Popular Mechanics headlines we can vouch for.  From 1932.  Also, we always use dark light when painting with the "minus colors" from this other weird headline.

"Tracing a curse to its source."  From Popular Mechanics, 1924.

"'Aladdin's lamp' halts train with beam of light."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

"Japanese talisman brings good luck."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.

Which came first -- the telephone or the caller?  "Public telephone on an uninhabited island."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.

Though the "ungodly hour" gets 300,000 times the Google results, the "godlike hour" is also on the clock.  This lettering is from The Godlike Hour by Francis T. Leahy, 1918.

"Church spire chopped down after it defies flames."  From Popular Mechanics, 1924.

"Electric lights blown out with puff."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

We've always preferred Tesla over Edison, and this headline bolsters our cause.  "Clock that won't run one of Edison's successes."  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

"Half-inch piece of sun will guide night flyers."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Please do join (if only as a spectator) my psychic battle against vintage Popular Mechanics magazine.  The phrase "printed matter can be demonic" delivers zero Google results, but that simply testifies to a massive coverup.  Vintage Popular Mechanics is the dragon to my St. George.  Root for me, even if my anachronistic quest to vanquish this beast perplexes you.  Merely recall that linear time is an illusion, and have faith that it's never "too late" to stop the toxic waste of vintage Popular Mechanics from contaminating our world.

Here's the floorplan of "the house that was not," from The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.

"Kissing through disinfected silk gauze."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.

"Photographing the invisible."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.

Nearly 250 years before A Course in Miracles, there was A Discourse on Miracles by Thomas Woolston.

"If you pledge yourself to secrecy, I'll teach you."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

"Automobile runs through sewer."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.

From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

"Noises made by oysters hamper sea radio."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.  Related: "Photograph noises on ships to end annoying sounds."  (Works like a charm.)  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.