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Saturday, December 23, 1916
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The Headlines
WALL STREET RELIEVED BY A WAVE OF BUYING; Many Rumors Unpleasantly Connected With Thursday's Drastic Decline. WALL ST. RELIEVED BY WAVE OF BUYING
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander I of Russia (1777)
- Joseph Smith (1805)
- Jean-François Champollion (1790)
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804)
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896)
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
39,976 days ago
(109 years, 191 days)