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Today — June 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, April 1994.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1906 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's hat yo-yo is from Nebelspalter, 1933.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"I dread being a centenarian."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By John Mandeville.  From Chatterbox, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Old enough to remember when TV was dots and dashes?  From 73 Magazine, 1965.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Nigerian spiritualistic seance, from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
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