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Saturday, February 19, 1916

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The Headlines

LEADS SHONTS UP TO 'SLUSH FUND' AS SESSION ENDS; Thompson Committee Counsel Starts Witness on Stevens Contract Story. REPEATS LANE'S PROTEST Boston Banker Told Interborough President He Didn't Like All His Associates. 3 DIRECTORS QUIT LATER Shonts Letter to Freedman Tells of Visit to Morgan with Belmont to Get Loan Offer. LEADS SHONTS UP TO 'SLUSH FUND'

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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

40,284 days ago

(110 years, 134 days)