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Thursday, January 4, 1912

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The Headlines

WU INVITES PREMIER TO GO TO SHANGHAI; Says Negotiations by Telegraph Are Impossible -- Renewal of War Now Expected.

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Jack Judge & Harry Williams

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1912

  • Unsinkable
  • Women and children first

Tech Check

Motorized Movie Cameras, Stainless Steel & Traffic Control Towers.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

41,791 days ago

(114 years, 181 days)