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Thursday, October 26, 1916
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The Headlines
GIRLS LEAP TO DEATH FROM BLAZING LOFT; All Apparatus South of Fifty-ninth Street Called Out for Two Fires Downtown. BIG CROWD SEES RESCUE Three Firemen Among the Nine Persons Injured When Flames Sweep Buildings Two Blocks Apart. GIRLS LEAP TO DEATH FROM BLAZING LOFT
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- François Mitterrand (1916)
- Georges Danton (1759)
- Napoleon Hill (1883)
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685)
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
40,034 days ago
(109 years, 249 days)