Old News

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.

"Tomatoes guard flowers."  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

A scene like this would have been welcome in our crayon-optional Minimalist Coloring Book.  "On the Northern ice," from The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.

"How shadows help to keep the world in gear."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

The universal language of color has notes like music.  This we learn in Popular Mechanics, 1924.

The fire demon kills!  Destroys!  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

The shape of the phone has changed over the decades, but this ad from Popular Mechanics in 1934 was prescient.  The text reads, "More important than any material thing."

A "cold-bath liar" is someone who brags offensively about enjoying an icy shower to start his day.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.