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Today — June 6, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Balsam fir.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A poem on vegetables for vegetables."  From The Omen, 1994.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Napoleon III, by a vegetarian."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"If you open your mouth—you put your foot in."  From Failt-Ye Times, 1967.
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Old News (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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Old News (permalink)
From Eastern Pentecostal Bible College's 1955 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1963.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1931 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Old News (permalink)
"Somebody does something!"  From North Adams State College's 1965 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1989 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beautiful Joe's Paradise by Marshall Saunders, 1934.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review, 1961-62.
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