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Today — November 8, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Folks, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1950.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed -- it's difficult to keep a bed made due to the hobyahs.  From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sailing Alone Around the World by Capt. Joshua Slocum and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian, 1901.
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Old News (permalink)
"I am dead, but the silver cord is not yet cut."  From The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The usual missing lynx."  From Oedipus the Wreck by Owen Seaman, 1888.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Edinboro State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1890 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Life must have metals."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we though this was Cousin Itt from the Addams Family.  From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1969 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Appletons' School Readers Book 3, by Harris, Rickoff & Bailey, 1886.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1933 yearbook.
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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