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Today — March 29, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1942.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Foods by Harris & Lacey, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"Death for telling ghost stories."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lanier Technical Institute's 1985 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1958 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1975 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mister Bill by Albert E. Lyons, 1905.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1922 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1940.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if lazy cooks fritter their time away."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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