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Tuesday, July 11, 1916
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The Headlines
WILSON DECLARES HE WON'T AID TO EXPLOIT MEXICO; Actions of Some Americans Have Justified Suspicions -- Deplores Force Policy. LONG WAY IS TO FIGHT" But President Insists on Our Right and Duty to Guard the Border. DEFENDS NEW BANK LAW Says It Prevented Panic -- Discusses the Democracy of Business and Praises the Average Man. WILSON WON'T AID TO EXPLOIT MEXICO
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- John Quincy Adams (1767)
- Alexander Prokhorov (1916)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- James McNeill Whistler (1834)
- Carl Schmitt (1888)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
40,141 days ago
(109 years, 356 days)