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Friday, May 16, 1919

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The Headlines

PREDICT GERMANS WILL FIND A WAY TO ACCEPT TREATY; Believed in Paris That Most of the Protests Are Merely Propaganda. WEEK MORE FOR OBJECTION Council of Four Rejects Labor Proposals, Declaring That the Treaty Covers Them. BROCK DORFF MAKES THREAT Tells German Delegation Terms Cannot Be Signed in Their Present Form. Organized to Deal with Protests. Hint Brockdorff Will Resign. ALLIES EXPECT GERMANS TO SIGN See Propaganda in Protests.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

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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

39,103 days ago

(107 years, 48 days)