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Thursday, February 6, 1919

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The Headlines

AMERICANS ROUT ARCHANGEL REDS IN FIERCE FIGHT; Attempt Is Made by Infantry Behind Barrage to Storm Our Vaga Position. WITHERS AWAY UNDER FIRE Foe's Loss Heavy in Casualties and Captives--Five Americans Killed, Several Wounded. CHINESE MAY TRY NEXT Our Men Preparing Warm Reception for Yellow Soldiers in the Bolshevist Army.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.

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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 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

39,201 days ago

(107 years, 146 days)