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Monday, October 27, 1919

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The Headlines

FIND MEXICANS KILLED AVIATORS; American Officers Identify Fishermen as Slayers of Lieuts.Connolly and Waterhouse.DESTROYER BRINGS BODIES Notes Scratched on Airplane Reveal Terrible SufferingsDuring 19 Days Without Food. FIND MEXICANS KILLED AVIATORS Major Bratton's Account. Murdered for Robbery. Hope to Get Murderers. Long Search for Missing Airmen.

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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

38,938 days ago

(106 years, 248 days)