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Thursday, January 11, 1912
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The Headlines
ASCENT FROM BATTLESHIP.; First Aeroplane Flight from the Deck of a British Vessel.
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
Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
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You Share a Birthday With
- William James (1842)
- Alexander Hamilton (1755)
- Theodosius I (347)
- Albert Hofmann (1906)
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
41,784 days ago
(114 years, 174 days)