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Saturday, April 20, 1918

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The Headlines

ITALIANS FORM RIGHT WING; Orlando Stirs Deputies to Enthusiasm by the Official Announcement.500,000 MEN AVAILABLEExperts Say They Could BeSent Without Endangeringthe Home Front.SPEEDING UP AMERICAN AIDTroops Going Overseas MoreRapidly--2,200,000 Men Under Arms by July. "Now Forming the Right Wing." ITALIANS FORM RIGHT WING OF BATTLE LINE Shipping Our Troops More Rapidly. Could Easily be Shifted Back to Italy. Orlando's Announcement to Deputies.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.

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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

39,493 days ago

(108 years, 73 days)