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Tuesday, May 1, 1917
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The Headlines
ARREST GERMANS WITH 2-LB. BOMB; Police Capture Roosevelt Hospital Employer About to Take Elevated Train. MADE IT IN A LABORATORY Confess They Were Going to Use it in Wall Street to Affect Stocks.
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
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Rudolf I of Germany (1218)
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
39,847 days ago
(109 years, 62 days)