From Cosmopolitan (1895).

From Lustige Blätter, 1901.

From Die Muskete, 1920.

From More Tales from the Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1915.

"The ouija board is one o fthe most popular distractions of the Hollywood flapper set." From Picture Play magazine, 1922.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.

From Nebelspalter, 1886.

This ghost appears in the University Rhode Island yearbook of 1975.  It has been said that "ghosts exist because we determine them as ghosts -- narrate them into 'life'" (Clive Bloom, in Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History).

How well do you know your giant bottles?  Is this a Jeroboam, a Rehoboam, a Methuselah, a Salmanazar, a Balthazar, a Nebuchadnezzar, a Melchior, a Solomon, a Goliath, or a Melchizedek?  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

Here's a precursor to that unforgettable scene in Cabin in the Woods in which a college woman makes out with a trophy on the wall.  From Colorado College's 1977 yearbook.

"It's almost impossible to imagine a clock's accuracy being off by such an incredibly tiny figure" (Josepha Sherman, How Do We Know the Nature of Time, 2004).  From Cine-Mundial, 1933.

Here's a mention of a nonsensical vowelless word ... and we wish the consonants in question had been included, because it might very well have appeared in Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

From Million Dollar Baby by Amy Patricia Meade, 2006

Here's a precursor to Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965).  From Peace Institute's 1920 yearbook.

From Seven Brides for Dracula by Tim Kelly.

From Collier's (1902).

From Otboi, 1906.