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Friday, December 22, 1911
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The Headlines
BACKS UP ROOSEVELT IN HARRIMAN DISPUTE; George W. Sheldon Says the $250,000 Fund Was Raised in 1904 to Save Higgins.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Alexander's Ragtime Band
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The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876)
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
41,804 days ago
(114 years, 194 days)