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Tuesday, August 13, 1918
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The Headlines
GERMAN PAPERS ADMIT DEFEAT; Junker Organ Calls the Picardy Reverse the Worst Sustained by the Teuton Army. QUESTIONS BEING ASKED Blunt Charge That the Truth Is Being Concealed from the People. Vorwaerts Finds "Heavy Sorrows." Setback Not Disguised. GERMAN PAPERS ADMIT DEFEAT Semi-official Agency Explains. Officers Made "Last Ditch" Fight Temporary" Stand at Montdidier. Admits Whole Line Is Menaced. Retreat "Serving Our Aims." Rail at Concealing the Truth
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Till We Meet Again
Richard A. Whiting
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Lincoln Logs
On This Day
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.
Wikipedia →Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
- Frederick Sanger (1918)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871)
- John Logie Baird (1888)
- Samuel de Champlain (1567)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
39,378 days ago
(107 years, 323 days)