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Today — July 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales and Travels, A Second Reader by Cora Martin, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Laidlaw Basic Readers, Book One: Reading Activities, Maintenance and Functional Exercises, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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Old News (permalink)
"Handing out smiles.  The true way to become happy.  Being good and doing good."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1979 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's recipe for "cold slams" is from the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling of resting for the first time in a hundred years.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 123.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Happy Holigans" club, wearing their tin can hats.  From Saint Mary's School's 1906 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance we thought he didn't like donuts, and we were like, "Well, then give us your donuts."  From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1929.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Who says I don't have a direct line to heaven?"  From St. Andrew's College Review, 1981-82.
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