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Today — April 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Old News (permalink)
"Good news for beavers."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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Old News (permalink)
"And now ice cream in slot machines!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Mediumship of Jack Webber by Harry Edwards, 1941.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Big snakes with crossed rainbow guardians: Big star chant."  From Navaho Religion Vol. II by Gladys A. Reichard.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fishing with English literature (perhaps Moby Dick?)  From Wheaton College's 1921 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun in the Radio World by E. Boyd Smith, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1940 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Confession: we're not wearing a fig leaf.  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Good tidings to all people."  From The Instructor, 1951.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They met in mid-air."  From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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