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Monday, August 14, 1916
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The Headlines
VOTE A NEW TAX ON CORPORATIONS; Fifty Cents on Every $1,000 Over $99,000 Invested, Under Senate Caucus Plan. MUNITIONS LEVY MODIFIED Five Instead of Ten Per Cent. on Components ;- Stamp Taxes Partly Abolished. VOTE A NEW TAX ON CORPORATIONS
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
- Frederick William I of Prussia (1688)
- Guangxu Emperor (1871)
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
40,108 days ago
(109 years, 323 days)