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Wednesday, August 8, 1917

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MACKENSEN TAKES 1,300 PRISONERS; Also Captures 13 Guns in Drive at Russian Positions in Rumania. MORE REGIMENTS MUTINY Two of Russian Southern Wing Voluntarily Quit the Line, Petrograd Reports. MACKENSEN TAKES 1,300 PRISONERS RUSSIAN CABINET FILLED. Changes Made in Tentative List-- National Defense Department.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Over There

George M. Cohan

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Soldiers

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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

39,748 days ago

(108 years, 328 days)