Tuesday, May 30, 1916

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Sound

The roar at the station is deafening, five thousand folks screaming for the Colonel while "Poor Butterfly" blares from a distant phonograph. I’m dodging the "Votes for Women" picketers and shouting over the clamor of these new electric clocks ticking in the shop windows. Ma sent me out for a loaf, but spending $0.06 on bread feels like a lousy gyp when I could be saving for a box of Lincoln Logs. Between the click-clack of the news tickers and the political boomers hollering about Justice Hughes, I can barely hear myself think.

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The Headlines

CHICAGO GIVES WARM WELCOME TO THE COLONEL; Shouting Crowd of 5,000 at Station as He Stops Off on Way to Kansas City. DEMONSTRATION AT HOTEL Ex-President's Four-Hour Stay Devoted to Conferences ;- Third Ticket Talk Persists. HUGHES BOOMERS ACTIVE Hitchcock Plans to Have Name of Justice Presented First ;- Says He Would Accept. COLONEL WELCOMED BY CHICAGO THRONGS

Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Tech Check

Toggle Light Switch, Electric Clock & Submachine Guns.

Cost of Living (1910)