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On the date

Saturday, August 17, 1918

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The Headlines

U-BOAT SINKS SCHOONER WITHOUT ANY WARNING; The Modrugada, Bound for Brazil, Fired Upon Off the Virginia Coast by Submarine. U-BOAT'S GUNS SET BIG TANKER AFIRE

Read in The New York Times →

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

39,374 days ago

(107 years, 319 days)