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Wednesday, December 26, 1917

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The Headlines

GERMANS MURDER AMERICAN SENTRY AFTER CAPTURE; Soldier Found with His Throat Cut, Following Enemy Raid on Trenches. PERSHING WARNS HIS MEN Bulletins Are Posted Informing the Troops of the Savage Practices of the Foe. LIKENED TO MORO CRUELTY Army Also Told of Germans' Inhumanity to French and BelgianWomen and Children. Washington Hasn't Heard of It Yet. NO FRATERNIZING WITH FOE. German Methods of Warfare Enough for the British. EX-PREMIERS LOSE ESTATES Greek Court Seizes Fortunes of Skouloudis and Lambros.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

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The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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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

39,608 days ago

(108 years, 188 days)