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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

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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

40,034 days ago

(109 years, 249 days)