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Today — February 22, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Journeys Abroad by Stothers & Rupert and illustrated by Edith McLaren, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two methods of caring for a dress.  From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the Knave of Hearts who stole the queen's tarts.  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1873.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Goats! Goats! Goats!"  From Together, 1964.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1903 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Good news!  "It really isn't too late to seek a newer world."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1959 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1880.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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