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On the date
Friday, August 9, 1912
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The Headlines
GEMS STOLEN AT BAR HARBOR; Thieves Rob Edgar Scott's Home of Several Thousand Dollars.
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
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- William Alfred Fowler (1911)
- P. L. Travers (1899)
- Thomas Telford (1757)
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
41,573 days ago
(113 years, 328 days)