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Friday, August 31, 1917

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The Headlines

WISCONSIN TOWN EXPELS PACIFISTS; Lochner and Others Forced to Return to Minneapolis with All Arrangements Upset. FARGO PLAN ALSO GIVEN UP New York Delegates Leave Without Knowing Where They Are Going. Seven Minutes to Leave Town. Following Russia's Model. PACIFISTS IN A DILEMMA. Leave City for Council and Don't Know Where They're Going. WISCONSIN TOWN EXPELS PACIFISTS

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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

39,725 days ago

(108 years, 305 days)