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Friday, February 5, 1915
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The Headlines
TURKS ROUTED ON SUEZ CANAL; British Drive Back 12,000 Ottomans in Two Engagements, with Heavy Loss. COLONIAL TROOPS USED New Zealanders Get Their Baptism of Fire -- Turkish Prisoners Glad to be Captured. TURKS ROUTED ON SUEZ CANAL
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
You Share a Birthday With
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848)
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
40,663 days ago
(111 years, 148 days)