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Friday, April 12, 1918

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The Headlines

REPORT U.S. MARINES ARE IN VLADIVOSTOK; Harbin Advices Regarded as Not Improbable by the State Department. NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE Consuls at Port Tell Russians Forces Will Be Withdrawn When Order Is Restored. REPORT U.S. MARINES ARE IN VLADIVOSTOK GERMAN SHIPS AT LOVISA. Russian Fleet Said Still to be Lying Off Helsingfors. ANOTHER PROTEST TO BERLIN. Bolsheviki Object to Germanization of Yuriev.

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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

39,501 days ago

(108 years, 81 days)