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Today — May 27, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1932. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Daily Mirror, 1918. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1987. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Busy Little Brownies by Nataniel Moore Banta and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Fate Magazine, 1953. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1896. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Here's the sword of truth from Kladderadatsch, 1931. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "One thousand ghosts hike themselves away to the city."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Return of the moustaches."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Separated at Birth? (permalink) Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source. . . . read more from Separated at Birth? . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) The adage is confirmed: "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."  From The Film Daily, 1939. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1916 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Chatterbox, 1891. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "I don't dislike the fact that I'm being mistaken as a plant."  From How to Eliminate My Teacher (2020). Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Seattle Pacific College's 1928 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .