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Friday, July 4, 1919

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The Headlines

R-34 OFF HER COURSE NORTHEAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND; HERE SATURDAY; HANDLEY-PAGE FLIES TO NEW YORK TODAY; ALLIES TO TRY EX-KAISER IN LONDON AS TREATY BREAKER; The Giant Four-Engined Handley-Page Biplane, Which Has Abandoned Her Transatlantic Flight, and Will Fly From Newfoundland to New York Today.

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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

39,053 days ago

(106 years, 363 days)