"Mystery of the pyramid, the five-pointed star, and cross."  From Azoth, 1917.

"Not this year."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.

From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

"Why does the new year begin on January 1?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.

Faith in Something.  From Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh.

When holidays collide: Hallowe'en and New Year's Eve.  Courtesy of UpNorthMemories.

From Wee Wisdom, 1944.

From The Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet or, The Genteel Art of Illustrating by Oliver Herford, 1907.

"An old riddle of the new year: A father has just twice six sons. Not one e’er sees his brother. Of thirty daughters to each son, not one e’er sees the other. Each daughter’s life twice twelve doth count. Of strange facts here’s another: One-half their lives they’re white as light, and black as night the other."

From Youth's Companion, 1889.

Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 

"Things that have not gone up amd things that have gone down."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.

From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.

From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.

From Punch, 1910.

From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).

From Rockford College's 1910 yearbook.

From Totem Tales: Indian Stories Indian Told, Gathered In the Pacific Northwest by W. S. Phillips, 1896.

From Southern Methodist University's 1967 yearbook.

From Improvement Era, 1935.