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Monday, November 18, 1918

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The Headlines

OUR MEN IN MONTMEDY; Without Bands or Flags They Move Forward on a War Basis. RAINBOW DIVISION GOING Advance Ten Miles, Will Resume March Today, andThen Rest Ten Days.FRENCH IN GRAVELOTTEHave Also Occupied Mulhouseand Colmar--British Advance on Wide Front. On Two-day Marches. Fly Stars and Stripes. Marines' Band Plays. OUR MEN IN MONTMEDY In a Pillaged House. Started in Gray Dawn. Order of March. Expect Trying Days. Paris Names Ten Divisions. Day's Advance of Ten Miles Germans Turn Over 42 Guns. Road Builders Everywhere. Great Streams of Refugees. Eager to Go Forward. Flanks Well Protected.

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Slang of the decade

General

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Soldiers

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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

39,281 days ago

(107 years, 226 days)