From Moving Ahead by Hildreth et al. and illustrated by Malvern & Highsmith, 1945.

From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.

From Improvement Era, 1926.

From 1908, via UpNorthMemories.

From The Science of Everyday Life by Van Buskirk, Smith & Nourse, 1931.

From c. 1915.  Via UpNorthMemories.

From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.

From Manners Made Easy by Mary Beery, 1949.

From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.

From Punch, 1923.

From High Society: Hints on How to Attain, Relish, and Survive It by Fish, 1915.

From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.

From Armour Institute of Technology's 1925 yearbook.

From Punch, 1910.

Q: "Can the man forced into the ditch truthfully say that the black cat brought him bad luck?"

A: No, but the black cat served as harbinger of the man's accursed neighbor who shouldn't be allowed to drive.

From Thinking and Writing Clearly by Stratton, Blossom & Lanphear and illustrated by Corinne Malvern, 1943.

From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.

From The Purple Parrot, 1929.

From The New Curriculum Arithmetics Triange Series Grave Five by Brueckner, Anderson, Banting & Merton, 1935.

From Life, 1924.

From The Why of Fashion by Karlyne Anspach, 1967.