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Sunday, October 8, 1916
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The Headlines
WILLIAMS HITS THE LINE.; Plunging Attack Leads to Defeat of Union by 13 to 0.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
- Zog I (1895)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585)
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
40,052 days ago
(109 years, 267 days)