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Wednesday, April 5, 1911
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The Headlines
RETAINING WALL CRUSHES TENEMENT; Family of Six Caught in the Ruins, Girl Crushed to Death, and Her Father Badly Hurt.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Hobbes (1588)
- Bette Davis (1908)
- Pope Urban VIII (1568)
- Spencer Tracy (1900)
- Joseph Lister (1827)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Air Mail, Hydroplane & Electric Starter for Cars.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
42,066 days ago
(115 years, 91 days)