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Tuesday, May 21, 1918

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The Headlines

RED CROSS TOTAL HERE $4,500,000; First Day of Drive Gives Good Promise of Oversubscribing Quota of $25,000,000. G.F. BAKER GIVES MILLION U.S. Steel Donates $500,000, J.P. Morgan & Co. $325,000, and H.C. Frick $250,000. W.C. Breed Presides at Luncheon. Starting of the Various Teams. List of Yesterday's Subscriptions. RED CROSS TOTAL HERE $4,500,000 Mayor's Wife Sells Buttons. Theatrical Profession Assists. Theatrical Committee Announced. Colonel Roosevelt Speaks Today. Message from British Red Cross. Red Cross Issues Warning.

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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

39,462 days ago

(108 years, 42 days)