Here's a precursor to Rob Lowe.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.

From The Diverting, Pathetic, and Humorous Adventures of Sydenham Greenfinch by Theodore Alois W. Buckley, 1854.

"Now she brought the horn handle of the crop down upon the vase with all the strength of her arm."  From Lucy of the Stars by Frederick Palmer and illustrated by Alonzo Kimball, 1906.

From Popular Mechanics, 1917.

"Little by little she grew silent and refused to join in the games."  From When I Was a Little Girl by Zona Gale and illustrated by Agnes Pelton, 1913.

"Smoothing away the horrors of indigestion," from Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.

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"Looking exactly like this —."  From Pearson's, 1901.

Merely four years after the debut of The Importance of Being Earnest, it was important to be Humphrey, too.  The caption reads, "Neither the voice nor the face was Humphrey's!"  From English Illustrated, 1899.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.

Here's an ax chopping wasted time out of your busy schedule, courtesy of an ad in Cranberries, the National Cranberry Magazine, 1984.

Centaurs on bicycles.  From Jugend, 1896.

Notice how this old ad attempted to turn "elucidations" into a magic word, meant to mesmerize the reader in almost every paragraph.  The reader was also enticed to send for the pamphlet by two other concepts -- notice how many times sensual/sensational pleasure/stimulation is mentioned, and how "mysterious" the effect will be.  From Popular Mechanics, 1924.