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Friday, February 23, 1912
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The Headlines
WALDO ENDS RUMOR THAT HE WILL QUIT; Police Lieutenants Cheer and Whistle for Joy Over Announcement at Their Dinner.
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
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Karl Jaspers (1883)
- Kazimir Malevich (1878)
- Pope Paul II (1417)
- Erich Kästner (1899)
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
41,741 days ago
(114 years, 131 days)