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Wednesday, January 29, 1919

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The Headlines

PALISADE VICTIM BRIDE OF SOLDIER KILLED IN FRANCE; Served Red Cross Here, Hoping to be Sent Abroad, Till Word Came of Husband's Death. USED ONLY MAIDEN NAME Lived Alone in Apartment, Seemed Well to Do, and Drove Her Own Car in War Service. HAD THREATENED SUICIDE Daughter of G.H. Packwood, a Tampa Business Man--Had Secretly Married Major Fenton. "Wife of the Major." PALISADE VICTIM BRIDE OF SOLDIER Wept for Dead Husband.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

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 1919

  • The Red Scare

Tech Check

Pop-Up Toaster, Shortwave Radio & Arc Welding.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

39,209 days ago

(107 years, 154 days)