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Tuesday, July 4, 1911

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The Headlines

OFFER MRS. JENKINS $20,000 TO GO AWAY; It Is Not Disclosed Who Is to Pay It, but It Is Supposed to be Linked with Smuggling Cases.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1911

  • Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

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

41,976 days ago

(115 years, 1 days)