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Wednesday, January 12, 1916

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The Headlines

PARK INVASION NOT AGREED TO YET; Mayor and Park Commissioner Doubtful About Letting In the Shakespeare Masque. A YEAR TO REPAIR DAMAGE Mr. Van Ingen's Estimate of the Loss to Central Park -- Suggests Van Cortlandt Instead. PARK INVASION NOT AGREED TO YET

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann become the first German aviators to earn the Pour le Mérite, receive the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1916

  • He kept us out of war

Tech Check

Toggle Light Switch, Electric Clock & Submachine Guns.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

40,322 days ago

(110 years, 172 days)