"Snizzlewoots Wally and how he got over it."  From Ambition magazine, 1915.

"An ostrich racer."  From Popular Mechanics, 1908.

From Popular Mechanics, 1933.

"How a strange accident saved me from baldness."  From Popular Mechanics, 1926.

"Is the earth still inhabited?  While scientists are wrangling over the question as to whether Mars or Venus is signaling us, it would be well to start an inquiry into whether the earth is inhabited."  From Life, 1920.  We say the same thing about scientists touting artificial intelligence: is there any intelligence on earth to begin with?

"How I was shamed into popularity!"  From Popular Mechanics, 1925.

During Daylight Saving Time, you set your bookmark one chapter ahead if you're reading The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, 1893.

"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.