Electrocuted by a strand of twinkle lights.  From The Purple Parrot, 1941.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

From Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman by Annie Fellows Johnson and illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, 1913.

From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.

From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1917.

Answers: 1. pan-the-r.  2. coy-ote.  3. tap-ir.  4. ant-e-lope.

Here's a grand example of the mysteriously glowing trees that spread through old college yearbooks.  From Michigan State College's 1954 yearbook.

You've heard of both the war on Christmas and "Christmas in July," and it all began July 20, 1941.  "War comes to the North Pole."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.

From St. Nicholas, 1913.

From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.

From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 1901.

From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.

From Purple Parrot, 1934.

From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.

From The Johnson Journal, 1947.

From Collier's, 1915.