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Saturday, August 26, 1911
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The Headlines
KEPT VOW SIXTY YEARS.; Pendleton Shaved Yesterday, Saybrook Bridge Being Completed.
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
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
- James Franck (1882)
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
41,922 days ago
(114 years, 312 days)