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Saturday, October 21, 1911
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The Headlines
STEAMER SUNK IN ELBE.; Two Unidentified English Ships Meet in Fog -- One Goes Down.
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
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Hongwu Emperor (1328)
- Edogawa Ranpo (1894)
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
41,867 days ago
(114 years, 257 days)