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Monday, August 27, 1917

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PRODUCERS CUT PRICE OF SUGAR; Consumers to Save 1 Cents a Pound as Result of Agreement with Hoover.TOTAL $30,000,000 TO JAN. 1Speculation in Cuban Crop IsSmashed by Patriotic Actionof Beet Sugar Growers. Mr. Hoover's Announcement. Wholesale Grocers in Line, Too. PRODUCERS CUT PRICE OF SUGAR

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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

39,730 days ago

(108 years, 310 days)