"Sometimes from the purest motives one is forced to follow the most devious routes."  From Dark Shadows episode 800. 

The Joe Camel mascot wasn't the first animal to glamorize smoking to children.  From Making Up with Mr. Dog by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Paine, 1901.

You've seen the Nipper dog who famously heard his master's voice, but here's who wound the phonograph.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.

Here's what happened -- every time I try to upgrade, they make me buy all new cords because of robbery, and my Convictions port requires new hardware and I'm just not going to play that game anymore.  From Taylor Magazine, 1969.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.

The clock faces are ten minutes in disgreement in this temporal anomaly documented by Wake Forest's 1991 yearbook.  We tend to blame the toilet paper for causing a disturbance in the fabric of space/time.  Mark Anderson has asked, "Is architecture toilet paper or timeless art?"  The clock faces seem to answer that question: timeless.

We live within walking distance of that street.  From Unknown, 1943.

"A queer little fellow that looked exactly like a nose."  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.

Those without faces can never be immortalized.  Hence, the charity "Students Without Pictures."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1939 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1918.

"A personification.  The books dedicate their new library."  From the State Female Normal School's 1903 yearbook.

Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "I prayed wildly for memory and blindness."   See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Northeastern's 1932 yearbook.

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From Puss In Boots, Jr. In New Mother Goose Land by David Cory, 1920.

"In darkness there is no choice.  It is light that enables us to see the difference between things." —Two Brothers [Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, 1889].  From Marion's 1923 yearbook.