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On the date

Saturday, March 24, 1917

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Sight

The streetlamps flicker across sharp, wool silhouettes and newsboys’ caps as the headlines scream of the Kaiser’s collapse, a crumbling monarch foreshadowing the total geopolitical shifts I’ve cataloged in the archives. I watch a driver grumble while handing over a thin dime and a nickel for a gallon of fuel, cursing that **$0.15** as if it weren't the bargain of a dying age. People hurry past toward the electric glow of the **movies**, their eyes wide with the frantic energy of a world pivoting toward total war. Through my lens, the stiff collars and long, heavy coats are merely costumes for a generation about to vanish into the mud.

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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

39,885 days ago

(109 years, 100 days)