"Nothing surprising anymore."  From Judge's Library, 1905.

The very latest fashion in walking sticks.  From Illustrated World, 1920.

If you ever wondered about how fashion models affect those still expressions, it's all done with motors.  The headline reads, "Expression of model's face changed by motor."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

"Are our feet turning to hoofs?"  From Illustrated World, 1920.

"Intolerance is produced by intensively farming one idea.  Prudery is the dead bones of virtue bound together with barbed wire."  From The Judge, 1912.

Here's someone who somehow managed to take 30 years to come up with a symbol for the word "the," only to gain the general public's indifference.  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

And how true those words are, even today: "They're still at it in Berlin."  From Illustrated World, 1920.

Here's a precursor to "fake news" -- an admission that it's not only the movies that are fictional.  From Illustrated World, 1920.

"A pyramid of lost articles," from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1915.  "Just because you lost it is not sign that you'll never see it again.  On the contrary, the chances are 96% in your favor!"

Here's a precursor to the "tinfoil hats" of those shielding against mind control by governmental or paranormal forces.  In 1920s England, tinfoil hats were a fashion statement.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo of Sarah Bernhardt in 1859.

It's true that "the news surrounds us" (The Dick Davis Dividend, 2008).  Photo scanned by Oregon State University.

The headlines at the top of our collage proclaim that Mr. Hogan is a prophet who has a "vivid air dream," yet in the clipping he doesn't remember his first flight and tends to think about his next dessert while piloting.  How can we reconcile this seeming conflict?  "Sometimes the visionary's discernment is blinded by familiarity" (Jackie L. Green, Vanguard of Visions and Dreams, 2012).