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Wednesday, October 11, 1916
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The Headlines
BROOKLYN DOWNS RED SOX IN FIRST CONTEST AT HOME; Tide of World's Series Turns as Robins Win by 4 to 3 at Familiar Ebbets Field. STANDS FAR FROM FULL Game, Too, Has Less Thrills Than on Monday, but Wild Enthusiasm Follows Victory. COOMBS STOLID AT START In 7th, However, He Falters, and Pfeffer Stops Boston's Rally from Developing Into Defeat. BROOKLYN AT HOME CONQUERS RED SOX
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
- Roman Jakobson (1896)
- Friedrich Bergius (1884)
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
40,049 days ago
(109 years, 264 days)