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Tuesday, August 22, 1911
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The Headlines
Detective Must Face Kidnapping Trial
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
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Max Scheler (1874)
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
41,926 days ago
(114 years, 316 days)