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Saturday, May 13, 1916

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The Headlines

ORAL AGREEMENT TO PREVENT RAIDS ON MEXICO BORDER; Scott and Obregon Believed to Have Reached a Secret "Gentlemen's Understanding." EACH SIDE TO DO ITS PART Large Forces of Carranzistas to Go Into Coahuila and the Parral District. PURSUIT OF VILLA SHELVED None of Pershing Men Now South of San Antonio ;- President Goes on Short Cruise.

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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

40,200 days ago

(110 years, 50 days)