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Today — October 31, 2026

Old News (permalink)
"Witching time predicted this weekend."  From The Kentucky Kernel, 1959.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
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Old News (permalink)
"Goblins are good.  Halloween ghosts behave like gentlemen."  From The Washington Herald, 1907.  Via The Thanatos Archive.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the teacher's edition of Spelling in Language Arts 2 by Kuska et al., 1976.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mississippi State College's 1949 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1911 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"100% unnatural."  From Ohio University's 1991 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1910, via UpNorthMemories
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1983 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Westcott's New Bibles by James Sightler.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Jefferson Medical College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pupils' Own Vocabulary Speller Grade 3 Revised Canadian Edition by Gates, Rinsland, Sartorius & Peardon, 1947.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell Community Colleges 1990 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwest Christian College's 1980 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A ghost from Emerson's 1980 yearbook.
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