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Thursday, April 4, 1918

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The Headlines

PREMIER FOR FORCING PEACE; He Will Not Go Begging for It, But Will Employ "Physical Strength." ASSAILS FOES AT HOME Defends Treaty with Rumania as Bringing Security to Austrian Empire. SERB CESSION TO BULGARIA Says Territory Must Be Yielded --Insists He Still Favors Peace League. Takes Territory at Passes. Predicts League of Peace. CZERNIN EXPECTS PEACE BY FORCE Wants Indemnity from Rumania. Ukraine Food on the Way. Serbian Territory for Bulgaria. Not to Go "Begging for Peace." "Almost on the Point" of Parleys.

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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

39,510 days ago

(108 years, 90 days)