The original Life magazine began as a weekly in the 19th century and published many gags about the technological future around 1900. The actual caption for this full-page joke was: In Futuro. “You are nearly an hour late, dear.” “Yes, the air ship broke down, and I had to fly home.”
Scan and transcribed text from Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future, by Norman Brosterman. Post link