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Friday, October 18, 1918

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The Headlines

HAIG BREAKS LINE BELOW CAMBRAI; Storms German Positions on a Nine-Mile Front, Americans Aiding Him. ADVANCE OF 2 MILES MADE 3,000 Germans Captured and Seven Divisions Broken on Selle River. HAIG BREAKS LINE BELOW CAMBRAI Germans Fight to the Death.

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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

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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

39,312 days ago

(107 years, 257 days)