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Today — April 23, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Laughing Lion by Adelaide Pearson and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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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 Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Egyptian 'thought work' fills the space over the parlor fireplace."  From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Clouds are sleeping birds.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wassailing the apple trees."  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1927.
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you suffer from an overactive fork?  Are you thick and tired of it?"  From The Improvement Era, 1959.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Down among the dead."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A turbo-jet engine produces tremendous suction."  From Purdue University's 1962 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
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Old News (permalink)
"Who cares???"  From Detroit Bible College's 1971 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pairs of pears.  From Goshen College's 1920 yearbook.
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