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Saturday, December 23, 1911
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The Headlines
ROOSEVELT WILL RUN IF PEOPLE CALL HIM; Not After the Nomination for 1912, but Won't Decline It if Thrust Upon Him.
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
- Alexander I of Russia (1777)
- Joseph Smith (1805)
- Jean-François Champollion (1790)
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804)
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896)
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)