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Wednesday, September 17, 1919
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The Headlines
MAY QUIT NEW YORK TO ESCAPE UNIONS; Heads of Great Publications Threaten to Move Rather Than Pay New Printers' Scale. DEMAND $50 FOR 44 HOURS Workers Refuse to Arbitrate Hours--Collecting Fund for Strike to Begin on Oct.1. MAY QUIT NEW YORK TO ESCAPE UNIONS
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
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743)
- Billy the Kid (1859)
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
38,978 days ago
(106 years, 288 days)