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Monday, February 24, 1919

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Perspective: The Anxious Local · Tactile

My hands won’t stop shaking as I knot this stiff wool scarf, wondering how J.P. Morgan and his bankers can sleep while our savings vanish into those Mexican mines. I stared at the pump today until my eyes ached, watching that dial creep up to $0.15 for a single gallon of gas; it’s enough to make a man go over the top with worry. I try to find peace by sanding the rough notches of my son’s Lincoln Logs, but the splintery pine feels like the crumbling railroads we’re supposed to trust. Every penny feels heavier than the last, and I fear these "rehabilitated finances" are nothing but bubbles waiting to burst.

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The Headlines

UNITE TO PROTECT MEXICAN HOLDINGS; Bankers of This Country, Britain and France to Safeguard. Foreign Investors. J.P. MORGAN THE CHAIRMAN Plans for Rehabilitating Finances of Country, Railroads, and Mines to be Made. Members of the Committee. UNITE TO PROTECT MEXICAN HOLDINGS

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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

39,183 days ago

(107 years, 128 days)