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Monday, September 22, 1919

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The Headlines

AUSTRIA REVEALS KAISER URGED HER TO BEGIN THE WAR; Diplomatic Exchanges Between Berlin and Vienna in July, 1914, Now Made Public. WAR PLANS DATE TO JULY 5 Austrian Ambassador Reports Promises of Backing from Both Kaiser and Bethmann. WANTED 'IMMEDIATE ACTION' Austrian Council, on July 7, Laid Plans to Control the Balkans and Check Russia. Kaiser Backed Austria. AUSTRIA REVEALS KAISER URGED WAR Austrian Council for War. Plan to Deal With Rumania.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

On This Day

  • The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

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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

38,973 days ago

(106 years, 283 days)