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Today — May 3, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The horned women of the east."  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1979 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"For I am indeed terrible to all who are not my friends."  From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This fragment of a poem by Ellen Ann Ragsdale echoes the remarkable description of the intermediary Bardo state in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  From the University of Arkansas' 1968 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bates College's 1924 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
From Dreamers With Power, The Menominee by George and Louise Spindler, 1984.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed fisherman is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The Sphinx speaks as the mystic soul of humanity."  From Mystic World, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1913 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From Light, 1887.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

From The Flyaway Highway, by Norman Lindsay:

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"I think it's simply making an exhibition of yourself in public," said Murial Jane.
"But you wouldn't go to all that trouble to make an exhibition of yourself in private," Silvander Dan pointed out.

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"As it is, I'm about five minutes behind the present moment and I shall have to put on a spurt to catch up with myself."
[Which reminds me of my self-portrait cartoon.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1909 yearbook.
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