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Friday, February 19, 1915

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The Headlines

NEW CANCER SERUM USED WITH SUCCESS; Treatment Devised at General Memorial Hospital Stands Test in Inoperable Cases. ADMINISTERED BY INJECTION Physicians Interested Think Radium and X-Ray Now Superseded -- Official Report Awaited.

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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

  • World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1915

  • I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

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

40,649 days ago

(111 years, 134 days)