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Wednesday, April 12, 1916

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The Headlines

PERSHING GOES ON, DESPITE REPORTS OF VILLA'S DEATH; Pushes Advance in Mexico with More Mobile Forces and Increased Vigor. DOUBTS BANDIT SUCCUMBED " I Don't Care How Villa Dies; as Long as We Get Him I Am Satisfied." MINACA MURDERS DEPICTED J.H. Locke Gives Dramatic Account of Slaying of Companions After He Escaped. PERSHING PUSHES ON IN PURSUIT OF VILLA

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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

40,231 days ago

(110 years, 81 days)