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Friday, July 19, 1918

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The Headlines

BRITISH ARMY ON THE ALERT; Its Operations Depend On Success of Foch's Great Counterblow. CROWN PRINCE IN PERIL French Move May Upset Plans of Rupprecht and Generals in the North OR FORCE FINAL OFFENSIVEE Fate of the World Likely to be Decided Before the Summer Wanes. Rupprecht Waiting Anxiously. Delayed by Epidemic. Another and Greater Anxiety. World's Fate Soon to be Decided. BRITISH ARMY ON THE ALERT

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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

39,403 days ago

(107 years, 348 days)