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Today — November 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1961.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 1898. 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"An unidentified beeping object."  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1968.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1937 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1987 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"You're here — but why?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

From The Death of Mr. Gantley, by Miles Burton:

A town called Carronport Water, "placid and land-locked"!
Mrs. Butters



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