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Tuesday, November 7, 1916
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The Headlines
HUGHES PLANS TO VOTE EARLY THIS MORNING; Candidate Will Cast His Ballot in a Laundry -- Cheered by Theatre Audience.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
Wikipedia →Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
Wikipedia →Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Marie Curie (1867)
- Albert Camus (1913)
- James Cook (1728)
- Leon Trotsky (1879)
- C. V. Raman (1888)
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
40,022 days ago
(109 years, 237 days)