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Wednesday, May 28, 1919

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The Headlines

HAWKER IN LONDON; TELLS REST OF STORY; Grieve Shares With Pilot Tremendous Ovation on Trip From Scotland and in Metropolis. AVIATORS DECLARE GALE THEY MET WAS NO HINDRANCE Would Have Completed Flight But For Boiling Water Trouble--Wireless Equipment Unsatisfactory--Details of Rescue. Tossed by the Heaving Ocean. They Sum Up Their Experiences. Hawker Concludes the Story of His Flight Grieve Said the Wireless Was Not a Great Success. Navigated by Celestial Observations.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

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

39,090 days ago

(107 years, 35 days)