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Thursday, September 21, 1916

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The Headlines

GERMANS LAUNCH TERRIFIC ATTACKS ON SOMME LINES; Throw Wave After Wave of Massed Troops Against Posi-Newly Won by the French. FIGHTING LASTS ALL DAY Foch's Guns Cut Up Teuton Columns, Which Gain Ground Only to Lose It. BRITISH MAKE BIG RAID Seize 200 Yards of Trenches Near Arras ;- Repulse Attacks South of the Ancre. GERMANS LAUNCH TERRIFIC ATTACK

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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

40,069 days ago

(109 years, 284 days)