Monday, June 18, 1928

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The Headlines

GREEK WARSHIPS REPORTED IN MUTINY; First Squadron at Mitylene Is Said to Have Sided With Tobacco Strikers. SITUATION CALLED GRAVE Many Killed and Hurt in Clashes With Police as Workers Prepare General Strike.

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Makin' Whoopee

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Mickey Mouse Doll

On This Day

• Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ivan Goncharov (1812)
• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845)
• Georgi Dimitrov (1882)
• Miklós Horthy (1868)
• Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901)

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Tech Check

Electric Razor, Penicillin & Bubble Gum.

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