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Friday, June 30, 1916

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The Headlines

RUSSIANS TAKE 10,500 TEUTONS; Win Important Victory Over General Bothmer's Troops Near Kolomea, Galicia. FALL OF CITY IMMINENT Great Struggle in Volhynia Continues. Unabated ;-Czar's Total Prisoners 205,000.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.

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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

40,152 days ago

(110 years, 2 days)