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Friday, May 10, 1918

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The Headlines

BAYONET OUR MEN AFTER KILLING; New German Barbarity Causes Spirit of Retaliation to Flame in Our Army. TROOPS HAVE NO ILLUSIONS To Kill Boches Is Their One Aim --Gratified by Evidence of Stiffer Purpose Here. Army Confident of Outcome. BAYONET OUR MEN AFTER KILLING DRIVE OFF A GERMAN PATROL. Americans Not Deceived by New Trick of the Enemy. WAR CROSS FOR KANSAS MAN. Kills One German and Captures Three in Patrol Fight. FRENCH HONOR AMERICANS. Decorate Flags of Companies That Repulsed Toul Attack.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

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The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Soldiers

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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

39,473 days ago

(108 years, 53 days)