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Saturday, August 30, 1919
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The Headlines
FRENCH CHAMBER TO RATIFY TREATY; Score of Deputies Who Were Expected to Speak Announce Decision to Refrain. TAKE CABINET BY SURPRISE Government to Address the House on Tuesday--Action Expected by Friday.
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
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Edward Mills Purcell (1912)
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
38,997 days ago
(106 years, 307 days)