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Thursday, October 11, 1917
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The Headlines
Discovers Germans Plotted for South American War.
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
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
- Roman Jakobson (1896)
- Friedrich Bergius (1884)
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
39,685 days ago
(108 years, 265 days)