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Today — July 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1916.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing, 1779.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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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)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't divide me," begged the Apple.  "It is mercy I implore."  But the Knife could give no quarter till he'd halved the Apple's core!  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Say John, want to see something funny?"  From an ad for College Humor, in Movie Classic, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Waiter, take this gentleman's soup away.  I can't hear the band!"  From Punch, 1910.
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Old News (permalink)
"Cookie duster's sad lament."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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Old News (permalink)
"What I learned by staying away from college."  From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1947 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Don't shoot the weatherman," not even if he keeps passing off his guesswork as "science."  From Improvement Era, 1953.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Burned out."  From Pfeiffer College's 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
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