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Today — October 18, 2026

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1943.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bibliotherapy prescribes Sherlock Holmes for toothache.  From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Old News (permalink)
A dying man's last words, scrawled illegibly but translated by a spirit medium, were deemed unlawful.  "'Spirit will' has no legal status."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And lo!  With the moon, St. John and St. Paul, and the rest of them, began to dawn in the window in their lovely garments."  From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald and illustrated by Maria Kirk, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wm. H. Beard's American museum of art.  From Scribner's, 1871.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Crude Confessions (1962).
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Doctor Mary's Animals by Allinson & Lawrence, 1975.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1952.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Man An Open Book by James S. Doolittle, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1890 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Graphic Drawing Books by The Prang Company, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1915 yearbook.
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