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Wednesday, September 3, 1919

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The Headlines

MANAGERS MEET TO END STRIKE ON ACTORS' TERMS; Night Conference Gives Promise That Settlement May Come Today. FAVOR EQUITY RECOGNITION Hitch May Come with Stagehands on Closed Shopfor Actors.6 MONTHS' TRIAL PROPOSEDFive Theatres to Reopen in WeekWhether an Agreement Is Reached or Not. Six Months' Trial Proposed. Stage Writers Want Open Shop. MANAGERS MEET TO END STRIKE Plea for the Actor-Manager. BESSIE McCOY COMPLAINS. Says She Was Subjected to "Third Degree" Methods by Equity.

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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

38,992 days ago

(106 years, 302 days)