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Today — October 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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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 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.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Computer chess gets all the press, but let's not forget ham radio chess.  From 73 Magazine, 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1968 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hand painted postcard from 1908, via UpNorthMemories (with our own color correction).
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You spend your first three years getting into things; your last, in getting out."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1880.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wingate Junior College's 1930 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From CEFANC Boletin Informativo, 1980.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansass 1916 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It turns out that every wrong number is actually for you.  From Film Daily, 1944.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"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.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

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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