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Today — October 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is the way we keep still, too.  From Little Folks, 1920.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bolenius Readers: Tom and Betty by Emma Miller Bolenius and illustrated by Mabel Betsy Hill, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1949.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mathways 2 by Bates, Morham, Seim & Drake, 1974.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A pause in the Hallowe'en chorus."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1941.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1925 yearbook.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From How the Old World Found the New by Barnard and Tall, 1929.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salve Regina College's 1989 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a first violin ever plays second fiddle."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1927 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1925 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The truth about witches.  This was the Great Sabbat.  The Horned God watched from his altar as his frenzied worshippers danced."  From Fate Magazine, 1954.
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Old News (permalink)
"That's a funny way ot spell Halloween!"  From Piedmont Bible College's 1981 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Today's necktie preserves are from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1938.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As we noted previously, we've seen figures cut out of photographs, but too often we forget that the cutout reveals the figures "light body" that continues to thoughtfully dwell in the scene.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practice for Jack and Janet, 1957.
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