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On the date

Tuesday, April 1, 1913

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Tactile

The cold, stiff starch of my detachable collar chafes my neck as I run a thumb over the jagged, cold-rolled steel of a new Erector Set girder. This industrial miniature feels like a premonition of the skyscrapers soon to dominate the skyline, a tactile blueprint for a century of iron. I set the metal aside to glance at the gazette, noting the grim update of **;=L'.? ::4. h-** through the ink-stained newsprint. It feels as though we are all drifting toward a geopolitical **no man's land**, trading the soft wool of the past for a future forged in grease and gears.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Peg o' My Heart

Fred Fischer

The must-have

Erector Set

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1913

  • An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Tech Check

The Zipper, Refrigerator for Home Use & Crossword Puzzles.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

41,338 days ago

(113 years, 93 days)