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Saturday, October 4, 1919

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The Headlines

GRILL FOSTER ON HIS 'RED BOOK'; Senate Committee Questions Steel Strike Leader for Five Hours. HE DODGES DIRECT ANSWERS Admits Belief in Employes' Control of Industry, Exterminationof Scabs, and Race Suicide. Foster Retracts Former Views. GRILL FOSTER ON HIS 'RED BOOK' Foster Dodges Direct Answer. Read from "Red Book." Unions Collect $20,000,000 Yearly, Gives Views on Race Suicide. Claims 363,600 Strikers Feared I.W.W. Rivairy, REPLY TO GARY TESTIMONY. Labor Organization Headed by Gompers Disputes His Contentions.

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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

38,961 days ago

(106 years, 271 days)