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Friday, February 13, 1914
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The Headlines
COLD KILLS SIX; BLIZZARD COMING; Thousands Suffer Intensely in Bitter Gale as Mercury Sinks to Zero.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
St. Louis Blues
W.C. Handy
The must-have
Tinker Toys
On This Day
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You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- William Shockley (1910)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Pope Alexander VII (1599)
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
41,020 days ago
(112 years, 140 days)