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Thursday, October 2, 1919

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The Headlines

ANOTHER WOMAN ATTACKED IN OMAHA; PUBLIC IS NOT TOLD; Newspapers Suppress News of Outrage for Fear of Renewal of Rioting.TROOPS ARE HELD READY100 Arrests for Brown Lynching--Labor Leader BlamesNegro Importations. NEGROES SLAIN IN ARKANSAS Seven Are Killed in Battle with aPosse at Elaine--Two WhitesAlso Die. ANOTHER WOMAN ATTACKED IN OMAHA

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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

38,963 days ago

(106 years, 273 days)