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Friday, August 30, 1918

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The Headlines

HINTZE GOING ON MISSION TO VIENNA; Believed German Foreign Minister's Purpose Is to ContinuePeace Discussion There.MAY AGAIN SOUND ALLIESGerman People Being Preparedby Laudation of Speeches ofSolf and Prince Max. HINTZE GOING ON MISSION TO VIENNA

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Till We Meet Again

Richard A. Whiting

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

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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

39,362 days ago

(107 years, 307 days)