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Today — April 8, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Animal Stories, illustrated by John Rae, 1909.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Science Monthly, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I used to be able to believe my own lies.  How fortunate I was, how very fortunate."  From Dark Shadows episode 741.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1939 yearbook.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Three Margarets by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry, 1897.
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Every day away from you — seems another year!"  From Peace Junior College's 1931 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Onion problem solved!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This space reserved for the good things we would like to have said about every one."  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Irish wolf-dog."  From Chatterbox, 1887.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1926 yearbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.
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