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Thursday, February 28, 1918

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The slush of late February crunches under my boots, competing with a newsie screaming about the Mikado and the Great War over the roar of a passing Ford. I lift my camera to take a quick snapshot of a girl in a wool shawl humming "Till We Meet Again," her eyes fixed on the shop window's display of Lincoln Logs. I duck into the bakery to escape the biting wind, fishing a nickel and a penny from my pocket. It’s a lousy feeling to watch the price of bread climb to $0.06 while the radio hums with talk of new gears and distant fronts.

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The Headlines

AMERICA COULD AID MIKADO; Has 22,000 Troops and Large Naval Force Available in East. TOKIO WOULD SEIZE STORES Plans a March Into Russia to Save Huge Supplies from the Germans. ENTENTE CONSIDERING IT Chancelleries Weighing Advisability of Action in FarEastern Theatre.

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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

39,545 days ago

(108 years, 125 days)