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Monday, June 10, 1918

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The Headlines

FIERCE GUNFIRE ON BRITISH LINES; Germans Pound Positions Extending from Villers-Bretonneux to Arras.FAIL TO ATTEMPT ASSAULTBombers Extend Attacks Backof Lines--Refugees Hopein Americans' Arrival. People's Heroism Impresses Troops. New Streams of Refugees. FIERCE GUNFIRE ON BRITISH LINES French Confidence Unshaken. RAIDS ON BRITISH FRONT. Thirty Germans Taken North of Albert--Gunfire in the South.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.

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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

39,442 days ago

(108 years, 22 days)