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Today — October 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Veil and 'kerchief case and pincushion combined"... in the form of a moth.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Here's today's fox chasing a drum.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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Old News (permalink)
"Why not compile your own anthology?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"To fuss is one of life's sternest duties."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
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Old News (permalink)
"When light appears, gloom perforce goes.  Let us cheer ourselves with sunshine psychology."  From The Occult Digest, 1929.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1917 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A young Father Time burns old letters.  From A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker, illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1865.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From David the Giant Killer, and Other Tales of Grandma Lopez by Emily Solis-Cohen and illustrated by Alfred Feinberg, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1904 yearbook.
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