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Thursday, October 12, 1916

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The Headlines

NEW ITALIAN DRIVE NETS 6,500 PRISONERS; Break Austrian Lines Southeast of Gorizia and on the Carso Plateau. WIN ALSO IN THE TRENTINO Cadorna's Troops Push Forward to the Southern Slopes of Monte Rolte.

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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

40,048 days ago

(109 years, 263 days)