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Thursday, January 28, 1915
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The Headlines
TWO HINDUS WIN VICTORIA CROSSES; One Sepoy the Sole Survivor of Machine Gun Detail -- Another First in Assaults.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Al Piantadosi
The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
On This Day
An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Jackson Pollock (1912)
- José Martí (1853)
- Colette (1873)
- Henry VII of England (1457)
- Pope Clement IX (1600)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Pyrex Glass, Transcontinental Telephone Call & Sonar (Active).
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
40,671 days ago
(111 years, 156 days)