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Thursday, March 4, 1915

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The Headlines

FLURRY OVER RESOLUTION; As First Passed Seemed to Authorize an Embargo on Arms. SUBSTITUTE GOES THROUGH After Explanations of Resolution's Intent at White House Conference. NO REFERENCE TO ARMS In Amended Form It Refuses Clearance to Ships Taking Supplies to Warships. NEW LAW TO GUARD OUR NEUTRALITY

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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

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

40,636 days ago

(111 years, 121 days)