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Tuesday, October 14, 1919

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The Headlines

PROTECT OFFICIALS MENACED BY 'REDS'; Police Guard Public Buildings and Homes of Justice Weeks and Others from Attack. FIND THREATENING CIRCULAR "Anarchist Commune Soviet" Urges Workers to Arm and Resist Authorities. ARM YOURSELVES. ARM YOURSELVES. AMERICAN ANARCHIST FEDERATED COMMUNE, SOVIET OF NEW YORK CITY.

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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

38,952 days ago

(106 years, 262 days)