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Today — February 14, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
136 types of UFOs.  From CENAP Report No. 124.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herlad, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She laughed till the long gray beard threatened to shake itself free."  From Youth's Companion, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pestered by gnomes.  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's flying book pedaled by a frog is from College of the Holy Cross' 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The high cost of being straight."  From B.A.R., 1980.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1890 yearbook.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1928.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustrated by Ralph Lane.  From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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