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Today — October 29, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Alien spirits, defilers of innocence."  From Dark Shadows episode 1079.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The devil will work for you!"  From Improvement Era, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden WItchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 1898.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1911 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Every brain's gone to the Moon."  From The Daily Express, 1977.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bowman Gray School of Medicine's 1976 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secrets of the Supernatural by Herbert Molloy Mason.
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Old News (permalink)
From The Woman Who Would Not Die by Carolyn Busey Bauman, 1969.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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Old News (permalink)
"Grave-digger dies at his work."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 1913.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Do we ride on extinct fishes?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1913 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Tales by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1953 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cupid and Psyche, from the rare History and Poetry of Finger-Rings by Charles Edwards, 1894.
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