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Today — April 18, 2026
	Your Ship Will Come In (permalink) From St. Andrew's College Review, 1933. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Your Ship Will Come In . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Here's today's laughing pig, duck, chicken, and farmer.  From the Daily Mirror, 1918. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

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

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink) From The Astonishing Tale of a Pen and Ink Puppet or, The Genteel Art of Illustrating by Oliver Herford, 1907. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Boyd Smith Mother Goose, 1920. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Why of Fashion by Karlyne Anspach, 1967. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Mysteria, 1913. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wahbegwannee, The White Flower by Anne Spottsword Young, 1907. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From 1905, via UpNorthMemories. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Wake Forest College's 1949 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) From The Gateway, 1969. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Elon College's 1929 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) A detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Butler College's 1899 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "A thin boy wastes his vitality."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1942. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) Stopping on a railroad track is one of the first danger signals on a date.  From Lighted Pathway, 1959. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

The Right Word (permalink) "Obviously the foreword should be called a hindbefore-word, and ought to appear at the end ; or better still, in the middle, and preferably printed upside down."  —G. K. Chesterton's foreword to Dressing Gowns and Glue . . . read more from The Right Word . . .