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From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.


From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.


"The train that was lost and the balloon that ran away.  The odd things that sometimes happen.  Nobody a penny the worse."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.




Computer chess gets all the press, but let's not forget ham radio chess.  From 73 Magazine, 1970.




From Kansas State University's 1968 yearbook.


A hand painted postcard from 1908, via UpNorthMemories (with our own color correction).


"You spend your first three years getting into things; your last, in getting out."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.


From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1880.


From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.


From The Duluth Herald, 1914.


From Wingate Junior College's 1930 yearbook.


From CEFANC Boletin Informativo, 1980.


From the University of Arkansass 1916 yearbook.


It turns out that every wrong number is actually for you.  From Film Daily, 1944.


"All-Ohio Burlesque.  Continuous performace, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, on the campus."  From Ohio University's 1915 yearbook.


From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.


From Nuts About Squirrels: The Rodents That Conquered Popular Culture, by Don H. Corrigan:

[The context here--should you need any--is the assertion that ancient squirrel lore has persisted even in the most modern entertainment technology.]

"There's a squirrel in the digital machine."

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