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Friday, April 8, 1910

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The Headlines

PRINCETON ALUMNI COLD TO DR. WILSON; Gathering at Graduate Club Here Disperses in Silence After Procter Gift Explanation. SARCASTIC PAMPHLET OUT Widely Circulated and Seemingly Approved at Meeting -- Moral It Gives Is "Take a Gift on the Jump."

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Leo Friedman

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1910

  • A Trip to the Moon

Tech Check

Neon Lamps, Headsets & Seaplane.

Style of 1910

Silhouette: Tubular and columnar

Material: Chiffon and velvet

  • Hobble skirts
  • Wide-brimmed hats
  • Orientalism

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

42,428 days ago

(116 years, 88 days)