"You were, you are, you shall be.  Past, present, and future discussed."  From Ambition magazine, 1915.

Headline(s) from Popular Mechanics, 1907.

A headline for another story is more interesting with the iillustration that appears directly above it.  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

We love how the presenter of these stories by the ghost of O. Henry handles any skeptical readers.  We've reproduced about half of the preface, but it's all delightful.  From My Tussle With the Devil by O. Henry's Ghost [via a Ouija board], 1918.

If the animal is mythological, it stands to reason that the investigation would be mythological, too.  The Unicorn: A Mythological Investigation by Robert Brown, 1881.   See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

"Bees not so busy despite poems of endless toil."  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

Crystal gazing in Popular Mechanics, 1926.

We paint all of our "minus colors" with a "minus paintbrush" onto a "minus canvas."  It just simplifies everytrhing.  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.   Speaking of "minus colors," see The Minimalist Coloring Book.

Long before radio stations offered the best of the sixties, seventies, and eighties, novels were doing it.  From The Veiled Hand by Frederick Wicks, 1893.

Rolling dice by airplane.  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

This is typical of the "New Inquisition" mindset behind vintage Popular Mechanics: "Poison gas guards 'health' of art treasures."  If only Big Science could gas all the arts, this toxic sentiment suggests.  It's an example of why Robert Anton Wilson called Big Science the New Inquistion.  The headline is a variation of the old witch test -- if she sinks, she's not a witch, and if the art survives the poison gas, it's "healthy."  Yikes.  From 1932.

"I found a new way to become popular—quickly."  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

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

The importance of nonsense, from the Davenport Daily Republican, Feb. 17, 1901.  (Via Yesterday's Print.)

Here's a precursor to the cult TV series The Prisoner.  "Are you a person or only a number?"  From The Literary Digest, 1916.

"Little log cabin shelters photograph and records."  From Popular Mechanics, 1919.

Here's Big Science telling you not to trust your intuition.  There's one phrase here that we actually do agree with -- "it pays to be dubious," to which we would add "of everything published in vintage Popular Mechanics."  It's all hogwash!  From 1931.

Homo Versus Darwin by William Penman Lyon, 1872.