"Digging up the Christmas dinner."  From St. Nicholas, 1916.

"Presto, the change was made!"  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.

From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.

Could be a band name: "Albert and the Bad News."  From Together, 1959.

Riding a tiny goat and frogs.  From Wide Awake, 1884.

From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?

From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

This is the only instance of "Jimineezers" we've found in print.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

Though Wikipedia dates the oath "Sakes alive" from the 1930s to the 1950s, here it is in 1918.  Sakes alive, Wikipedia!  From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.

A squirrel turns the year. We, too, adopted squirrel time and have never looked back.  From Monmouth's 1910 yearbook.

A squirrel was a sophomore in zoology at Tulane in 1973.  We were unable to confirm that he eventually graduated.

From the Indiana State Teachers College handbook, 1951.

Reblog if the squirrel of temptation has corrupted you with the lure of ice cream, candies, tobacco, pipes, or billards.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook. 

"He found himself in a nest of huge size, with the owl prophet staring at him with big, yellow eyes."  From Tiny Red Squirrel by James Douglas Williams, 1919.

Playing leapfrog with a goat and a squirrel.  From Wide Awake, 1884.