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Saturday, March 17, 1917

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The Headlines

WIDE REFORMS PLANNED; Universal Suffrage and Full Political Amnesty Are the Bases. CROWDS CHEER PROMISE Duma Committee and Workingmen Busy Planning for a Constituent Assembly. FOOD PRICES FALL RAPIDLY Calm Restored in Petrograd, but Partisans of Old Regime Are Still Being Arrested. PLAN WIDE REFORM IN RUSSIA NOW Search Houses for Sharpshooters. Food Prices Falling Rapidly.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Over There

George M. Cohan

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1917

  • Uncle Sam wants YOU

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

39,892 days ago

(109 years, 107 days)