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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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- George V (1865)
- Josephine Baker (1906)
- Jefferson Davis (1808)
- Paulette Goddard (1910)
- James Hutton (1726)
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General
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Soldiers
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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)