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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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Best-selling Sheet Music

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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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

39,976 days ago

(109 years, 191 days)