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Friday, August 9, 1918

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The Headlines

IRISH HOME RULE, DESPITE ULSTER; Secretary Shortt Announces Bill Is Being Drafted and Predicts Its Passage. TO DISARM ULSTERITES 50,000 Rifles Will Be Seized, by Force if Necessary, Commons Is Told. MRS. SKEFFINGTON SEIZED. Woman Who Evaded the English. Police Arrested in Dublin.

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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

39,382 days ago

(107 years, 327 days)