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Saturday, May 27, 1911
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The Headlines
AT 90 HE WALKS 65 MILES.; Fourteen Hours Is Thomas Weiman's Time, with Thermometer at 94.
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
- Ibn Khaldun (1332)
- Rachel Carson (1907)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894)
- John Cockcroft (1897)
- Hubert Humphrey (1911)
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
42,013 days ago
(115 years, 38 days)