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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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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

40,139 days ago

(109 years, 354 days)