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Monday, July 31, 1916

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The Headlines

STRIKE TIES UP 3D AV. SYSTEM AND MAY EXTEND; General Manager Hedley Gets Police Protection for N.Y. City Railways' Cars. ORGANIZING SUBWAY MEN From Battery to Westchester, Including Crosstown and Belt Lines, No Red Cars Move. SERVICE IS PROMISED TODAY System Carries 250,000 Passengers Daily ;- Union Officials Busy in All Five Boroughs. STRIKE TIES UP THIRD AV. SYSTEM

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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

40,122 days ago

(109 years, 337 days)