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Tuesday, February 19, 1918

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The Headlines

GERMAN AIR SCOUTS KEEP BUSY SPYING OVER OUR SECTOR; American Guns, Heavy and Light, Pound Away Steadily at the Persistent Foe. PREVENT CLOSE APPROACH Several Americans, However, Are Wounded by Shells in the Exchange of Missiles. FOUR KILLED BY EXPLOSION Bursting Hand Grenades Reported to Have Caused the Death of Infantrymen. Four Killed in Grenade Explosion. PERSHING INSPECTS SECTOR. Spends Two Days Going Through Trenches and Studying Conditions. GERMAN AIR SCOUTS SPY ON OUR SECTOR Complaint By a Cook. Doubted It Was Pershing.

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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

39,553 days ago

(108 years, 133 days)