"An Eskimo Legend.—Nov. 1, 1894.  Nooktah relates to me the following legendary conversation between an Eskimo and a raven flying over with something in its mouth.  'Sunah kingmiahpeu?' ('What have you in your mouth?') asks the man.  'Inukkoktooah mahmaktoksuah.  Eeoquaw; eeoquaw' ('The thigh-bone of a man.  It is very sweet.  Caw, caw'), answers the raven."  From Northward Over the "Great Ice" by Robert E. Peary, 1898.  (Note that the tea pot that steams brown bread and defrosts apple sauce technically relates to a previous paragraph.)

There was a time when products were proudly tested on animals.  Plus, there's a capuchin/cappuccino joke in there somewhere.  From c. 1890.

From the North Carolina Christian Advocate, 1912.

Barrels of whiskey and moonshine are traditionally labeled with X's (one X being weakest and three X's being strongest, as we learn in One-Letter Words: A Dictionary).  But lesser-known is that coffee used to be roasted to a XXXX strength.  Our vintage coffee ad is from c. 1890.  The four X's on the vintage Coca Cola postcard below are, we think, unrelated.

This illustration of a coffee octopus (or, er, quintopus?) is from a 1901 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "School teacher.  Pulled down hill."