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Thursday, May 4, 1916
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The Headlines
GERMANY TO REPLY TODAY; NEW ORDERS ISSUED TO U-BOATS; Berlin Rumors Indicate Concessions and Some Doubt About Their Satisfying Us. RESPONSIBILITY ON WILSON Germans Say Terms Are Such That He Must Decide Whether There Is to be a Break. HOUSE AT NIGHT COUNCIL President, Lansing, and Adviser Confer, but Still Have No Word from Ambassador Gerard.
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
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You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
- Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655)
- Wang Jingwei (1883)
- John Hanning Speke (1827)
- Horace Mann (1796)
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
40,209 days ago
(110 years, 59 days)