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Sunday, January 20, 1918

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The Headlines

SHUTDOWN TO BE GENERAL; Industry Here Will Be on Basis of National Holiday Tomorrow. DEPARTMENT STORES CLOSE Retail Dry Goods Association Decides to Pay Its Employes in Full. FREIGHT STILL TIED UP New York Receives 30,000 Tons of Anthracite, or Only Two-thirds of Normal. Violations Due to Ignorance. Less Coal Dumped Here. CITY PREPARES FOR WORKLESS MONDAY Reports Progress in Bunkering. Plan Approved by Stores. Issues Statement on Traffic. Seventy-five Extra Deputy Marshals.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

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 1918

  • The Yanks are coming

Tech Check

Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Enigma Machine (Early Version) & Hydraulic Brakes.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

39,584 days ago

(108 years, 164 days)