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Monday, August 4, 1919
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The Headlines
RADICALS INCITING NEGRO TO VIOLENCE; Publications Being Circulated in This City Urging Blacks to Join the I.W.W. GOVERNMENT HAS EVIDENCE One Writer Advises Race to Arm and Defend Their Rights with "Fire, Shot, and Shell." RADICALS INCITING NEGRO TO VIOLENCE
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
John Kellette
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
39,022 days ago
(106 years, 332 days)