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Monday, August 13, 1917

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GERMAN AIRMEN KILL 23, HURT 52, IN EAST ENGLAND; Score of Airplanes, in Two Divisions, Make Evening Raidon Popular Coast Resorts.40 BOMBS HIT SOUTHENDConsiderable Damage to Property, and All Casualties, Save Two, Caused There. FRENCH RAID FRANKFORTTwo Machines Avenge Recent Attack on Nancy and the Region North of Paris.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

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George M. Cohan

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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

39,744 days ago

(108 years, 324 days)