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100 Years Ago Today - April 12, 1913

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Here are 5 news stories from around the world 100 years ago.

What was happening in the world one hundred years ago? Hi this is Matt and here are 5 New York Times headlines from April 12th, 1913.

Number 5. Luckily for Dr. Higley, student loans hadn't been invented yet. He lent 700 dollars to a young scholar for med school, which the guy paid back swiftly and with interest. However, when the loan recipient passed away, he left Higley his entire 1 million dollar fortune.

Number 4. People took frogs seriously. The government seized 192 quarts of frogs' legs from a cold storage house and several more from restaurants. It was illegal to buy and sell them during the amphibians' spawning months of April and May. If only Kermit had been around to see it.

Number 3. New Yorkers could get their tennis on and for cheap. Racquets were on sale 50 percent off, making them under 3 dollars.

Number 2. A guy upset that he couldn't get a seat on the subway, pulled the emergency stop chord twice. New York City Transit trains are still equipped with cord-activated emergency brakes, but according to the sign, they are not to be pulled in the event of an emergency.

Number 1. A woman tied an ID tag to her mother's wrist as she often wandered and got lost. Don't judge her, as slipping a GPS enabled device onto or in a person is essentially the same thing.
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