From The Body and Health: Grade Six by Ruby Simpson and Elizabeth Smith, 1936.

From When a Man Commutes by Alan Dale and illustrated by H. B. Martin, 1918.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.

From College of the Albemarle's 1964 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1929.

From Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1903.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

From Satirikon, 1909.

Here's a precursor to the film Naked Lunch, in which Judy Davis injects herself with enough insecticide that her very breath kills bugs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.

"Tough on flies," from Joseph Breck's Annual Descriptive Catalogue of Seeds, 1896.

"Dust fly killer," from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1910.

Here's an example of natural pest control from Gleanings in Bee Culture, 1874.

Did you know the insect kingdom has its own grim reaper?  From Scott & Co.'s seed catalog, 1902.