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Tuesday, April 17, 1917
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The Headlines
CABOT WARD'S AUTO KILLS TWO GIRLS; Inmates of Day Nursery Walk in Front of Park Commissioner's Car. HE WAS ON MERCY ERRAND Motoring to Arrange for Opening of East Side Playground;- Heartbroken Over Accident.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Over There
George M. Cohan
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
- Pedro de Valdivia (1497)
- Alain Poher (1909)
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
39,862 days ago
(109 years, 77 days)