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Sunday, November 4, 1917

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The Headlines

FRENCH FOLLOW UP RETREATING FOE; Reach the Ailette River on a Wide Front in the Aisne Sector AND SHELL BEATEN FORCES Crown Prince's Shattered Battalions Cut Bridges asThey Fall Back. FRENCH FOLLOW UP RETREATING FOE Not Interrupted, Berlin Says. GUNS ROAR AMID THE RAIN. Bad Weather Restricts Operations on the Flanders Front.

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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

39,660 days ago

(108 years, 240 days)