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Today — August 30, 2026

Precursors (permalink)
48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Meadow Folk's Story Hour by Prudence Gruelle and illustrated by Nell Hatt, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Domestic Science by Gertrude Johnson, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1968.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No favor can win gratitude from a cat. —La Fontaine."  From The Cat, Being a Record of the Endearments and Invectives Lavished By Many Writers Upon an Animal Much Loved and Much Abhorred by Agnes Repplier, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He liked to tow something that would cause the Oyster Forks to pause in midair and the Catty Ones to reach for their Hardware."  From Ade's Fables by George Ade, 1914.
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Old News (permalink)
"Lilliput materialises in San Francisco."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An early hybrid.  From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1980 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Do as you like: an experiment in Vienna that is working very well."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.
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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 Broome Community College's 1986 yearbook.
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