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Thursday, May 11, 1911
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The Headlines
BABY THROWN FROM TRAIN.; Evidence That Child Was Strangled and Clothing Set on Fire.
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
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Irving Berlin (1888)
- Martha Graham (1894)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752)
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
42,029 days ago
(115 years, 54 days)