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Sunday, June 3, 1917

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The Headlines

GORE FOOD BILL PASSES SENATE; CURBS EXCHANGES; Gives President Power to Stop Trading in Grain Futures if Prices Are Run Up. FOOD CENSUS ELIMINATED Proposal for Government to Buy Up Fish Supply Also Is Defeated. PROVIDES SEED FOR FARMS Measure Which Now Goes to Conference Carries an Appropriation of $11,000,000. Law to Close Exchanges. Wadsworth Objects.

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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

39,814 days ago

(109 years, 29 days)