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Thursday, October 19, 1916

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The Headlines

LLOYD GEORGE ASKS JUSTICE FOR IRISH; Makes Conciliatory Answer to Nationalist Complaints, and Admits Stupidities. REDMOND'S ATTACK FAILS Motion of Censure Beaten, 303 to 106 -- Immediate Home Rule and Release of Prisoners Urged. LLOYD GEORGE ASKS JUSTICE FOR IRISH

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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

40,041 days ago

(109 years, 256 days)