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Thursday, January 22, 1914
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The Headlines
PHIPPS MILLIONS FOR RADIUM CURE; Steel Man Reported Planning $15,000,000 Gift for Chain of Cancer Hospitals.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
St. Louis Blues
W.C. Handy
The must-have
Tinker Toys
You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Leica 35mm Camera, Traffic Lights & Tank Warfare Concepts.
Style of 1914
Silhouette: Utilitarian and flared
Material: Wool and serge (wartime utility)
- Trench coats
- Shorter hemlines
- Military details
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
41,042 days ago
(112 years, 162 days)