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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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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

40,049 days ago

(109 years, 264 days)