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Friday, April 13, 1917

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The Headlines

VIENNA AND SOFIA APPROACH ALLIES FOR PEACE TERMS; Seek to Get Into Touch Privately with Entente Diplomats in Switzerland. MEET NO ENCOURAGEMENT Are Told All Negotiations Must Be Public, with Statement of Conditions Proposed. PEOPLE ARE WEARY OF WAR Food Shortage and Russian Revolution Causing Unrest;-Peace Move Known in Washington. Both Nations Tired of War. News as Heard in London.

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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

39,866 days ago

(109 years, 81 days)