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Wednesday, February 19, 1919

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The Headlines

DENIKINE ROUTS 100,000 REDS, CAPTURES 31,000; Reaches Caspian Sea After 231-Mile March, in Which He Took Great Booty. UKRAINIANS ALSO GAINING Recapture Poltava, Kharkov, and Other Towns in Battles with Bolshevist Invaders. REDS LEADERS ARE AT ODDS Lenine Favors Attending the Prinkipo Conference, While TrotzkyIs Opposed to Step. RIVAL SOVIETS DISAGREE. Lenine and Trotzky Organizations Split on Allies' Invitation. TSCHAIKOVSKY IS OBDURATE. Repeats Determination of Russians Not to Treat with Bolsheviki. DENIKINE ROUTS 100,000 REDS

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Best-selling Sheet Music

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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

39,188 days ago

(107 years, 133 days)