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Sunday, May 28, 1916

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The Headlines

2,500 AMERICANS CALL ROOSEVELT TO GUIDE NATION; With Flags, Cheers, and Songs Throng Marches Three Dusty Miles to Sagamore Hill. COLONEL GIVES HIS PLEDGE Would Demand of Every Man Who Comes Here That He Become a Citizen and American. NO ONE LOYAL TO A COWARD' Quotes and Commends Lowell's Line: "Peace Won't Keep House with Fear" ;- Off for West Today. 2,500 AMERICANS CALL ROOSEVELT

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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

40,186 days ago

(110 years, 36 days)