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Today — August 18, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The White Cat by Madame D'Aulnoy and illustrated by E. MacKinstry, 1920. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Ontario Readers Primer: Mary, John and Peter, 1933. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Is there a spirit world?"  From the Daily Mirror, 1905. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1938. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "They were actually nodding their heads at her and saying, "Good-morning!'"  From "The Town of Haveyourownway" by Jennie M. Day, in The Children's Book, 1915. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "Peter Puck wants to know if street organs play music by Handel."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Chatterbox, 1876. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Last American by John Ames Mitchell, 1889. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) False teeth instead of an olive branch.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Gannon's 1971 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Rosette, translated by Baroness E. Martineau des Chesnez and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) This is how we read, too.  From Circleville Bible College's 1979 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Moving Picture World, 1922. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Syracuse University's 1909 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "You can't kiss away a murder!"  From Film Daily, 1944. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .