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Thursday, July 13, 1916
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The Headlines
NOTED SCIENTISTS ORGANIZE TO CURB INFANT PARALYSIS; Many Celebrated Physicians Join the Mayor's New Advisory Board. 17 DEATHS; 162 NEW CASES Heavy Losses to Landlords as Tenement Dwellers Flee Infected Houses. HUNDREDS MORE ARRESTED Magistrates in Manhattan Alone Impose Fines on 340 Persons in Sanitary Cases. ORGANIZE TO CURB INFANT PARALYSIS
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
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You Share a Birthday With
- 1841 (1851)
- Pope Clement X (1590)
- Isaac Babel (1894)
- Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608)
- John Dee (1527)
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
40,139 days ago
(109 years, 354 days)