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Thursday, May 26, 1910
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The Headlines
TAFT DANCED ALL NIGHT; And with a Mayor's Wife -- Denounced at a Presbyterian Assembly.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Leo Friedman
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- John Wayne (1907)
- Pope Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667)
- Dorothea Lange (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
42,379 days ago
(116 years, 39 days)