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Monday, July 8, 1912

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The Headlines

AMERICANS CAPTURE FIRST OLYMPIC RACE; Complete Sweep by Yankee Athletes in 100 Meters Sprint Sets the Stadium in Uproar. PENTATHLON IS ALSO OURS And Six of the Eight Competitors Left in the 800 Meters Run Carry American Colors. AMERICANS CAPTURE FIRST OLYMPIC RACE

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Best-selling Sheet Music

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Jack Judge & Harry Williams

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1912

  • Unsinkable
  • Women and children first

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

41,606 days ago

(113 years, 361 days)