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Thursday, August 10, 1916
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The Headlines
SCHOOLS TO BE SHUT TILL EPIDEMIC ENDS; Health Authorities and Board of Education to Postpone Opening Indefinitely. WARNS AGAINST CATSKILLS Dr. Emerson Says Conditions Are Bad In Mountains ;- 57 Die in a Day in This City. SCHOOLS TO BE SHUT TILL EPIDEMIC ENDS
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Herbert Hoover (1874)
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810)
- Jorge Amado (1912)
- Norma Shearer (1902)
- Wolfgang Paul (1913)
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
40,111 days ago
(109 years, 326 days)