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Today — April 25, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Meadow Folk's Story Hour by Prudence Gruelle and illustrated by Nell Hatt, 1921.
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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 Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Old News (permalink)
"The last chord: how an organ played its last note itself."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1976.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas University's 1897 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Phrenological Journal, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some think of sports while reading books, others think of books while enduring sports.  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Away she went, right up in the air."  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm being married!"  "You are being buried."  From Dark Shadows episode 739.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Musician, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mysteriously glowing forests spread through old yearbooks.  From Hope College's 1944 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
The fine line between "worrier" and "warrior."  From Syracuse University's 1952 yearbook.
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