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Monday, October 20, 1919

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The Headlines

WARSHIPS CHASING GERMANS ON DVINA; Four Miles of the Left Bank Cleared by the Fire of the Allied Flotilla. WARSHIPS CHASING GERMANS ON DVINA POLAND WON'T AID GERMANS. Assures Baltic States That She Will Do Nothing to Help Attack.

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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

38,945 days ago

(106 years, 255 days)