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Tuesday, October 24, 1916

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The Headlines

SLAYS MANIAC WHO KILLED SHERIFF AND SHOT THREE; Police Sergeant, with a Navy Rifle, Ends Battle of One Against Forty. CROWDS SEE THE FIGHT Squatter, with Shotgun and Two Rifles, Holds Police at Bay from Housetop. WAS FIGHTING EVICTION Purchasers of Old Long Island Homestead Wanted to Force Taff Out of His Shanty. SLAYS MANIAC WHO KILLED SHERIFF

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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

40,036 days ago

(109 years, 251 days)