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Today — August 29, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The land of no servants."  From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I only wish no one remembered."  From Dark Shadows episode 1194.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Sun Dial by Austin Dobson and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Old News (permalink)
"Moved—left no address."  From Improvement Era, 1932.  See our video about "When Faded Friends 'Ghost' Themselves."
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"May he bring you luck."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Tormentors.  From Salem College's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The picture looks better upside down, but it was printed this way.  From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1899 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Legally dead."  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1928 yearbook.
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