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Thursday, December 19, 1912
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The Headlines
ERIE WRECK KEEPS ARLINGTON AWAKE; Stalled Trains Set Crossing Bells to Ringing, and the Din Cannot Be Checked.
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)
On This Day
William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3+1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906)
- Albert A. Michelson (1852)
- Philip V of Spain (1683)
- Mileva Marić (1875)
- Jean Genet (1910)
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
41,441 days ago
(113 years, 196 days)