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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Teaching how to start a fire is no longer on most animal-training syllabi.  From Chatterbox, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State Normal School's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare History and Poetry of Finger-Rings by Charles Edwards, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How the Old World Found the New by Barnard and Tall, 1929.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State College of Washington's 1908 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language A, Skills Practice Book, Teacher's Edition by Raisbeck & Smart, 1980.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1931 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We made a spaceship.  We went up to the moon in it.  Yes, No."  From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1932 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Little Egyptian Cousin, written and illustrated by Blanche McManus, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1932 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of Childhood by Alice M. Chesterton and illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the U.S. Naval Academy's 1916 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the filmstrip "The Seven Sneezes," preserved by Uncommon Ephemera.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1904 yearbook.
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