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Wednesday, January 17, 1912
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The Headlines
CARDINAL GIBBONS FALLS.; Chair is Removed by Mistake as He Attempts to Sit Down.
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
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Franklin (1706)
- David Lloyd George (1863)
- Anne Brontë (1820)
- Al Capone (1899)
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600)
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
41,779 days ago
(114 years, 169 days)