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Wednesday, October 15, 1919
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The Headlines
MEN ACCEPT COMPROMISE; Get 9 Per Cent. Pay Increase; Will Returnto Work Toddy.PIERMEN VOTE TO RETURN15,000 Act and Rest of the40,000 Expected to GoBack to Work Soon.400 STEAMSHIPS TIED UPSoldiers and Sailors HandlingTransports at Army Piersin Hoboken. 15,000 Vote to Return to Work. MEN ACCEFI COMPROMISE Professor Ripley Blames Meeting.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Evangelista Torricelli (1608)
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908)
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
38,950 days ago
(106 years, 260 days)