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Tuesday, March 14, 1916

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The Headlines

12,000 TROOPS ON BORDER; Main Column, at Columbus, Will March Over the Boundary First. TWO OTHERS WILL FOLLOW El Paso and Douglas Contingents Will Advance Later to Avert Friction. PERSHING AND GAVIRA AGREE Lack of Rolling Stock Delays Mobilization, but Plans Are Nearly Completed.

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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

40,260 days ago

(110 years, 110 days)