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Saturday, July 8, 1916

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The Headlines

BRITISH TAKE CONTALMAISON; But Are Later Driven Out, Though Prussian Guards Are Overwhelmed. HAIG'S MEN ENTER OVILLERS Terrific Battle Is Still Raging for the Possession of This Village. NEW LA BOISSELLE GAINS Trenches on a Mile Front Are Carried ;- Stronger Grip Is Taken on Leipsic Redoubt.

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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

40,144 days ago

(109 years, 359 days)