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Today — June 28, 2026
	Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Daily Mirror, 1915. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1931. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Here's today's puppet show mouse entertaining a dog and cat.  From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.  Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "A city with no road in."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "Vaulting amongst the eggs."  From Chatterbox, 1895. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Wizard, 1933. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Today's fawn jumping rope with a rabbit is from Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Red leaders will have their own 'iron curtain' in Britain."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "Consider eternity, then decide."  From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) From How About Never -- Is Never Good For You? by Bob Mankoff. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1950 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Shadowland, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Ohio State University's 1970 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Japan, 1861.  Via the Waseda University Library archive. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) Forget "studies" -- why not draw scientific conclusions from contest entries, like they did in 1956's Australia?  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1956. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) "Resolved: That I will never let a day go by without doing my dead level best!"  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Saved only to die later."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .