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Friday, October 24, 1919

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The Headlines

FINAL WARNING TO LONGSHOREMEN; If They Do Not Go to Work Today Soldiers May Supplant Them.HYLAN'S OFFER REFUSEDShippers Decline to Confer withHim, and O'Connor SaysHe Prolonged Strike. O'Connor Blames Hylan. ULTIMATUM SENT TO LONGSHOREMEN The Mayor's Offer. Rumers of "Strikebreakers." Riggers Vote to Stay Out.

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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

38,941 days ago

(106 years, 251 days)