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Sunday, August 4, 1912
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The Headlines
CHICAGO SCORES DOUBLE VICTORY; Leifield Allows Brooklyn Only Three Hits in First -- Alien Gives Three in Second.
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
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
41,578 days ago
(113 years, 333 days)