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Sunday, September 8, 1918

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The Headlines

OUR MEN IN SIGHT OF LAON; Encounter Only Machine Guns in Their Advance to the Aisne. FIND THE REGION A WASTE Fleeing Germans Destroy Everything They Cannot Carrywith Them.AUTO CAVALRY IN ACTIONSmall Cars with Machine GunsAgain Effective--Foe's Plan"Destructive Defense." Machine Guns Ever Present. The Times Special Cable Dispatches from the War Zone OUR MEN IN SIGHT OF LAON Spires of Laon in Site. Ford Cavalry in Action. German Man Power Dwindles.

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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

39,353 days ago

(107 years, 298 days)