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Monday, August 12, 1918

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The Headlines

GIVES AFFIDAVITS TO SHOW HEARST OFTEN MET BOLO; Lewis Offers Testimony About Calls at Editor's Apartment. BERNSTORFF A VISITOR, TOO Ambassador and Traitor Executed in France WentThere Together. INTIMACY DENIED BY HEARSTAttorney General Makes PublicSworn Statements of Chauffeurs and House Employes. Told by the Chauffeurs. LEWIS SAYS HEARST AND BOLO MET OFTEN Hearst Had Private Exit. Drove Bernstorff to See Hearst. Recognized Bolo's Photograph. Identifies von Bernstorff. Bernstorff Went Away Angry. He Also Took Count to Hearst. Bolo with von Bernstorff. Sure He Drove Bolo. Says Bolo Was a Visitor. William R. Hearst's Reply.

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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

39,379 days ago

(107 years, 324 days)