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Thursday, January 25, 1917
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The Headlines
Swiss Take Measures to Meet Coal Shortage
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Over There
George M. Cohan
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
Sinking of the SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Modern Zipper & Drone Torpedoes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,944 days ago
(109 years, 159 days)