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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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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)