From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1905.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"The ravages of …"  From Pearson's, 1906.

A 1910 issue of The Sphinx, the UW Madison campus humor magazine.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Clothed in 'death costume' and preaching as 'a voice from the dead.'"  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

"The philosophy of the pistol," from The Illuminated Magazine, 1843.

"Wake up old man," from 1907.

From Cosmópolis, 1929.

If there's a skull lock and you forgot your skeleton key, try working a beam of light into the mechanism.  Recall how "She springs a light, / Unlocks the door" (Dryden).  Similarly, "Morning with its key of light / Unlocks the dusky portals of the night" (Albert Laighton, Poems, 1878).  And "My light unlocks the stalls, / two dozen and one windows open— / all, except the window of the moon, / already painted on as shining" (Jane Shore, Eye Level, 1977).

From Purdue's Debris yearbook, 1910.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.

"Dr. Donne discovering a nail in the skull," from The British Workman and Friend of the Sons of Toil, 1855.

From Die Muskete, 1927.

From The Mystery of Marlborough House, 1866.

From the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology's Bulletin 64, 1918.