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On the date

Sunday, September 24, 1911

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The Headlines

18-HOUR EXPRESS HITS FREIGHT TRAIN; Pennsylvania Special Crashes Into Freight -- Engineer and Fireman Killed.

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.

    Wikipedia →

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

41,894 days ago

(114 years, 284 days)