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Wednesday, February 20, 1918

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The click of my shutter captures a newsboy shouting about the Bolsheviks over the rhythmic clip-clop of horse hooves on wet cobblestones. A young mother in a wool cloche hat hurries past, clutching a fresh set of Lincoln Logs for her boy while a gramophone nearby crackles with "Till We Meet Again." Across the street, a group of soot-faced dockworkers are trading grins and shouting, "The Yanks are coming!" as the scent of six-cent sourdough wafts through the biting winter air. I adjust my focus on the grit of the storefronts, freezing this restless, hopeful moment before the city shifts again.

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The Headlines

ALLIES WILL HOLD NEW TREATY VOID; Bolshevist Agreement Obtained by Coercion and Violative of Wilson Principles. LENINE FEARED OVERTHROW Kept Power by Avoiding War --America Watching Turkey and Bulgaria. Treaty Rests Only on Force. Strengthens Teuton Militarists. ALLIES WILL HOLD NEW TREATY VOID

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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

39,552 days ago

(108 years, 132 days)