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Saturday, August 16, 1913
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The Headlines
BALLOT OR DEATH THE PANKHURST CRY; Leader of the Movement, in an Interview for The Times, Predicts Speedy Victory.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Peg o' My Heart
Fred Fischer
The must-have
Erector Set
On This Day
Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
Wikipedia →Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Zachary Taylor (1816)
- Menachem Begin (1913)
- Gabriel Lippmann (1845)
- T. E. Lawrence (1888)
- Wilhelm Wundt (1832)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
41,201 days ago
(112 years, 321 days)