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Saturday, January 29, 1916
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The Headlines
$9,000,000 HOTEL FOR SEVENTH AVE.; Pennsylvania Railroad's Structure Will Mark Beginning of Great Improvement. IT WILL HAVE 1,000 ROOMS McKim, Mead & White Will Design Building to Equal the Best Hotels in the City. $9,000,000 HOTEL FOR SEVENTH AVE.
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Anton Chekhov (1860)
- William McKinley (1843)
- Romain Rolland (1866)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688)
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
40,305 days ago
(110 years, 155 days)