"Nobody knows just when he's going to walk in front of an automobile, or entertain a house party of nice, husky, vicious, little disease germs."  From Wadco News, 1922.

"A soft blanket and a gay disposition are the essentials." From The Campus newspaper of Middlebury, 1964.

What did I expect the front page story to be, when it's from the home of mesh bags?  A rather fetishistic tribute to the fascinating gleaming silken texture of mesh bags.  From Wadco News, 1922.

The first building to be erected on a foundation of sandwiches!  From the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1938.

The saxophone is here called unnatural, abnormal, degenerate, discordant, nervous, and ugly, like America.  From the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1938.

"Devil's delight" priestesses and a fire ritual, both on the newspaper's front page.  From Stoutiana, 1916.

The dead are encouraged to plan for the future.  From McGill Daily, 1978.

"Physicist turns gold into lead." From George Washington University's Hatchet, 1987.

Reblog if a beard has changed your goals, outlook, or accomplishment of good.  From The Daily Universe, 1968.

Why is it Thanksgiving has to be overshadowed by Christmas?  Because no one sets up a corn stalk in their living room and piles tons of Thanksgiving presents around it.  From Fitchburg's The Cycle newspaper, 1970.

"Nothing surprising anymore."  From Judge's Library, 1905.

The very latest fashion in walking sticks.  From Illustrated World, 1920.

If you ever wondered about how fashion models affect those still expressions, it's all done with motors.  The headline reads, "Expression of model's face changed by motor."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

"Are our feet turning to hoofs?"  From Illustrated World, 1920.

"Intolerance is produced by intensively farming one idea.  Prudery is the dead bones of virtue bound together with barbed wire."  From The Judge, 1912.

Here's someone who somehow managed to take 30 years to come up with a symbol for the word "the," only to gain the general public's indifference.  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

And how true those words are, even today: "They're still at it in Berlin."  From Illustrated World, 1920.

Here's a precursor to "fake news" -- an admission that it's not only the movies that are fictional.  From Illustrated World, 1920.

Here's a precursor to the "tinfoil hats" of those shielding against mind control by governmental or paranormal forces.  In 1920s England, tinfoil hats were a fashion statement.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

"A Saint Louis scientist has discovered that we shall all be crazy by the year 2016.  This, alas, is not the worst of it.  We shall also be dead."  From The Ottawa Evening Herald, January 27, 1902.