From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.

From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.

A folktale about a bat who writes poetry: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell.

From Harpers, 1932.

Choose all that apply -- vulgar dances, suggestive songs, questionable associates, sex plays, lack of discipline in home, suggestive literature.  From Lighted Pathway, 1935.

From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 1928.

From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.

Whether or not you excel at trombone glissandos, may you always "drop the slide at the most critical moment" in whatever you do.  The inscription reads, "To my trombone smearer, who drops the slide at the most critical moment."  From St. Procopius' 1931 yearbook.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.

"The faithful beasts."  From Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Laite, 1923.

From The Century 1890.

Smoke numbers.  From Hanover's 1912 yearbook.

From Scribner's 1875.

From Michigan State's 1947 yearbook.

From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 1912.

From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

From Chatterbox, 1910.

In parts one, two, and three, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing.  Imagine entire scenes about nobody being anywhere, with questions about "Who wasn't there?"