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Saturday, March 1, 1919

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The Headlines

AQUITANIA SINKS FREIGHTER IN BAY; Slices Part of Stern Off the Lord Dufferin--One Life Lost Due to Crash. NEGRO TROOPS EXCITED J.P. Morgan Returns from Six Weeks' Trip--Not Hopeful About Export Trade. Colored Troops Excited. J.P. Morgan Returns. AQUITANIA SINKS FREIGHTER IN BAY

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

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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

39,179 days ago

(107 years, 124 days)