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Monday, March 29, 1915

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The Headlines

RUSSIANS ATTACK BOSPORUS FORTS; Black Sea Fleet Engages Turkish Defences on Both Sides of Strait. FIRE REPORTED EFFECTIVE Hostile Vessel, Shelled by the Attacking Warships, Keels Over and Blows Up. ASSAIL DARDANELLES, TOO From Gulf of Saros and Outside Strait's Entrance Shells Pour on Turks' Positions.

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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

40,611 days ago

(111 years, 96 days)