From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — November 4, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Little Folks, 1921. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Buried Cities Recovered by Frank De Hass, 1882. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr. 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 Number One Joy Street, 1922. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink) From the Daily Mirror, 1905. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Everybody's Doing This Now . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1997. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1946. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "He plunged into the darkness."  From Youth's Companion, 1925. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936. . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "The devil's fairy tale."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1941. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "Mammoth production of flowers."  From Advanced Magic by Magical Ovette, 1919. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

The Right Word (permalink) A collection of broken bottle shards is a "salad."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1901. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from The Right Word . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Medical College of Virginia's 1925 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Today's kangaroo bus is from Living Together in the Neighborhood, Teacher's Edition by Thelma Reese and illustrated by Don Sibley, 1964. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) What with the phasing out of skull bookends and the loss of the card catalog, we let our library card expire.  From the University of Detroit's 1963 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) From The Baby Animal Zoo by Nida & Nida, 1926. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .