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Monday, April 10, 1916

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The Headlines

FRENCH FALL BACK WEST OF VERDUN; Abandon the Bethincourt Salient, Straightening Their Line from Avocourt to Cumieres. GERMANS ATTACK FIERCELY But Are Repulsed with Slaughter in Massed Attacks on Dead Man's Hill. ALL THE NEW LINE HOLDS French Positions Are Penetrated Near Avocourt, But a Counterattack Expels the Germans. FRENCH FALL BACK WEST OF VERDUN

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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

40,233 days ago

(110 years, 83 days)