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Wednesday, July 31, 1912

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The Headlines

$2,400,000 CRAFT A YEAR PAID TO POLICE; MERCY FOR BECKER IF HE'LL TELL ALL; His Only Chance to Escape Chair Is to Expose the 'System,' Says Whitman.

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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)

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

41,582 days ago

(113 years, 337 days)