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Thursday, September 6, 1917

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The Headlines

11 KILLED, 62 HURT IN LONDON AIR RAID; Many Bombs Dropped in Flight Over City, the First Made by Moonlight. THIN HAZE HID AVIATOR Complaints Made In Press Forecast of More Assaults and Crowds Call for Reprisals. Raiders Flew in Groups. Hidden by a Thin Haze. American Officers in Crowds. 11 KILLED, 62 HURT IN LONDON AIR RAID Growing Casualty List.

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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

39,720 days ago

(108 years, 300 days)