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Tuesday, May 16, 1916

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The Headlines

MEXICANS DESERT PERSHING AT CRY 'VILLA IS COMING!'; Cervantes and Others Secretly Spread Report Bandit Has an Army of 5,000. PEON LABORERS QUIT JOBS Cavalry in Night Rides Tries in Vain to Capture the Chief Propagandist. OUTLAWS SLAIN IN SKIRMISH Three Killed After Firing on Party of Twelve American Troopers Near Lake Itascate. MEXICANS DESERT AT CRY OF 'VILLA!'

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.

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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

40,197 days ago

(110 years, 47 days)