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Today — March 10, 2026

Precursors (permalink)
"This man is both pugilist and preacher."  And a precursor to David Lynch!  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Reading Revised, B by Patricia Chesterman, 1982.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ostrich.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1942.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Do This Do That Wookbook by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1928 yearbook. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Herne, in Chatterbox, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pembroke State College's 1985 yearbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1919 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We're sick of trouble-makers."  From Southern Illinois University's 1971 yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Which will be your smile?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fashion comes to tin foil hats.  From North Georgia Technical and Vocational School's 1980 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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