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Wednesday, February 26, 1919

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The Headlines

WILL CAMP AT CAPITOL; President to Discuss League Face to Face With Senators. TAKES IT UP WITH CABINET Wants Members to Tour Country for Project--Wires Burton Nation Will Support It. WILL PROLONG HIS ABSENCE Purposes to Stay Until Mission Is Finished--Signs Revenue and Other Bills. Ready to Go to the Country. Likened to an Operation. Found at Work by Attaches.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.

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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

39,181 days ago

(107 years, 126 days)