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Today — August 21, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Messrs. Good-Grooming.  From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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Old News (permalink)
From $3.00 Worth of God by Wilbur E. Rees, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know who drives the train of thought."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba College's 1977 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1950 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Gingerbread Man by G. H. P. and illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert, 1910.
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Old News (permalink)
"They're out to get you."  From DePauw University's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The headgear of these same ladies can be called nothing less than alarming."  From The Emily Emmins Papers by Carolyn Wells, 1907. 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1980 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The day the doorknob winked at me."  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1909 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A "Pair" tree.  From David Lipscomb College's 1929 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hades, New Mexico."  From Laughing Horse, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review1939.
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