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Wednesday, August 2, 1916

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The Headlines

18 HURT IN CRASH ON BRIDGE INCLINE; Crowded Wooden Car on Queensboro Structure Demolished Between Heavy Steel Ones. MOTORMAN LOSES CONTROL Firemen Called to Chop Injured Passengers from Wreckage ;- Many Sent to Hospitals.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Poor Butterfly

Raymond Hubbell

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

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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

40,119 days ago

(109 years, 334 days)