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Tuesday, July 29, 1919

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The Headlines

STREET BATTLES AT NIGHT; Five Negroes Are Killed in One Fight--Rioting Subsides at Midnight NINE WHITES AMONG DEAD Negroes Storm Armory in Effort to Obtain Arms and Ammunition.SOUTH SIDE TERRORIZEDGangs Stone Vehicles and Beat Up and Stab Lone Whitesand Blacks. The Night Victims. A Soldier Slain. Fierce Fight in the Street. The Call for the Troops. Lone Negro Is Stabbed. Mob Gathers About Hotel. 1,000 Extra Police in Black Belt. Fire From House Tops and Alleys.

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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

39,028 days ago

(106 years, 338 days)