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Monday, April 17, 1916
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The Headlines
AGA KHAN VOUCHES FOR INDIA'S LOYALTY; Mohammedan Head Says Country Has Been Little Touched by German Plotting.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
- Pedro de Valdivia (1497)
- Alain Poher (1909)
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
40,226 days ago
(110 years, 76 days)