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Wednesday, February 21, 1912
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The Headlines
SLIGHT TO DIX SEEN IN SENATE'S ACTION; Adjournment, When Nominations Were Expected, Said to Mean Breach with Tammany.
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)
You Share a Birthday With
- W. H. Auden (1907)
- Anaïs Nin (1903)
- Peter III of Russia (1728)
- Jeanne Calment (1875)
- Sacha Guitry (1885)
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
41,743 days ago
(114 years, 133 days)