It's been said that the only way to get noticed is to do things the wrong way.  From Die Bühne, 1935.

"The mystery."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

"Don't be an office ostrich."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

Here is revealed why so many hypnotists and mentalists sport beards.  From Die Bühne, 1931.

From Kladderadatsch, 1939.

The shape of the phone has changed over the decades, but this ad from Popular Mechanics in 1934 was prescient.  The text reads, "More important than any material thing."

"Me drunk on literature is the best me. Hands down. On a good book, time is fluid, point of view ranges from the omniscient to the unreliable, and space is blasted with sensuality. On Lit I fuse with the human experience. I remember, I alter, I trust. Drinking that fine Lit down, I carbonize into the desirous me." —Dan Manzanares

Here's a precursor to the fishy tasting coffee in Twin Peaks -- fishy tasting lemonade.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.

Here's a precursor to video conferencing -- looking through the telephone in Die Muskete, 1933.

From Mocca, 1930.

"Your dream castle in soap!"  The bubbles might float up to form a castle in the air.  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.

"Indian design to cause sleep aids insomnia victims."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.  We re-created the pattern for you to print out and try for yourself (an internet exclusive!).

April.  From Die Bühne, 1934.

Jean Genet suggested that the sun resists the moon's efforts to muddle, thwart, and counteract the precise measurement of days.  Genet says that the sun cleanses time while the moon makes it elastic and immeasurable.  Here's another way to cleanse time, from Mocca, 1936.

He'd look even more nonchalant if he were munching an apple.  From Mocca, 1934.

Given the "fake news" controversies, how can one tell if a newspaper dress is a designer imposter?  From Mocca, 1932.

"The same reflection is in like manner cherished by the fashionable sort of teachers" (Joseph Browne, The Marrow of Ancient Divinity, 1820).  Our photo, exactly as scanned by Miami University Libraries, appears in McGuffey High School's 1933 yearbook.

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1931.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.