"Are you absent-minded?  Rare gift or unfortunate lapse, it is nature's safeguard against mental worry."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.

From Horizon, 1957.

From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.

From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.

From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.

"Local druggist makes many friends."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.

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From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.

From The Film Daily, 1927.

From Chatterbox, 1890.

"Man bites tick."  From The Old Line, 1949.

"I would laugh if there was any laughing left in me."  From Dark Shadows episode 792.

From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.

Before Soupy Sales appeared on The Gong Show, Gong Soups were apparently shown on sale.  (You see what I did there.)  From Daily Mirror, 1917.  

From Wee Wisdom, 1932.

From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.

From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.

From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.

From Current Sauce, 1961.