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Today — October 11, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1949.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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Old News (permalink)
"The Sphinx in all our lives."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Junior English Activities Book Three by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig & Borchers (undated, c. 1938).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The light was so bright that the mole could not look upon it."  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1968 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Millions now living will never die."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Bachman, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1941 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Like tacks, we can go no farther than our heads will let us."  From The Improvement Era, 1958.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1890 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The sign behind the dangling alarm clocks says, ""May Dame Fortune ever smile on you, but not her daughter Miss Fortune."  From Simpson College's 1926 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of Childhood by Alice M. Chesterton and illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.
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