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Today — April 13, 2026

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's gerbil reading the comics is from Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Samplers and Stitches, written and illustrated by Mrs. Archibald Christie, 1920.
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you taking a job away from a machine?"  From Union College's 1969 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hooded gothic bedstead of the fourteenth century."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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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 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Holdin' his friends."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1981 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Apathy Blvd.: walking tours cancelled due to ... whatever.  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Anti haircut league."  From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.
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