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Wednesday, January 26, 1916

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The Headlines

STEEL COMMON BACK ON 5 PER CENT. BASIS; Directors Vote as One for Dividend Out of Biggest Quarter's Earnings to Date. $105,000,000 CASH IN HAND Net for Last Period of 1915 Is $51,232,778, or $5,729,084 More Than Previous High Record. STEEL COMMON BACK ON 5 PER CENT. BASIS

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

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

40,308 days ago

(110 years, 158 days)