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Thursday, April 27, 1916
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The Headlines
GERMANS CLOSE SWISS FRONTIER; Sudden Action, Coupled with Greater Vosges Activity, May Mean a New Drive. NOT EVEN MAILS CAN CROSS Foreigners in Germany, It Is Said, Won't Be Allowed to Leave for Twenty Days. GERMANS CLOSE SWISS FRONTIER
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
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You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
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
40,216 days ago
(110 years, 66 days)