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Sunday, May 19, 1912
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The Headlines
MADISON SQUARE A GREAT BUSINESS CENTRE; RADICAL TRANSFORMATION IN RECENT YEARS; Demolition of Home of the Late Frank Work in Twenty-Sixth Street Leaves but One Early Residence on That Block -- Long Famous for Its Hotels -- Twenty-story Structures Now Over-top the Park -- Loft on Hoffman House Corner.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Jack Judge & Harry Williams
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Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)
- Julius Evola (1898)
- Nicholas Winton (1909)
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
41,655 days ago
(114 years, 45 days)