To be read in a roundabout way.  From Dana's Musical Institute's 1931 yearbook.

From the Duluth Herald, 1914.

"S'nothing serious I assure you, merely a scratch."  From Elmhurst College's 1916 yearbook.

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

From Eastern Mennonite College's 1986 yearbook.

Today's devil of the sea is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.

From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 1935.

From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.

From Punch, 1910.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.

"'Own-your-own home' idea helps sell houses and lots."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.

"But the dark that lies ahead is not the deepest dark to be found this night.  And this brief moment of the moon, rising like a single hope, will only make the night more bitter.  So that nothing can emerge from the darkness but an even darker despair."  From Dark Shadows episode 253.

From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

"Zaniness invades the minds of all."  From Franklin College's 1979 yearbook.

"Remarkable how happy they all are."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.

"See with what simplicity this nymph begins her golden days!  In the green grass she loves to lie" (Andrew Marvell).  From Wheaton College's 1967 yearbook.  

From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.