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Today — June 27, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Paths of Peril by James Macdonald Oxley, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fox excapes from the book it was in.  From The Life of a Foxhound by John Mills and illustrated by J. A. Shepherd, 1890.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Women disinclined to reveal their ages."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1906 yearbook.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Took poison at the altar."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"If anyone finds this, I love you."  From Tulane University's 1955 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1941.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Pittsburgh's 1918 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review, 1962-63.
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