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Tuesday, December 12, 1911
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The Headlines
HYDE JUROR FLEES.; Crawls Through Transom and Jumps from Fire Escape While Guard Sleeps.
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
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Edward G. Robinson (1893)
- Karl Bryullov (1799)
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
41,814 days ago
(114 years, 204 days)