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Monday, April 26, 1915

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The Headlines

St. Julien and Kersselaere Taken Northeast of Flanders Centre.; 1,000 BRITISH CAPTURED Berlin Says Advance Continues, but Paris Asserts Allies' Lines Are Holding. BIG FIGHT TO SOUTHWARD Bavarian Prince Directs Onslaught on British Lines Southwest of Lille. FRENCH DEFEAT IN WOEVRE? Germans Report Capture of Trenches Near Combres -- Paris Asserts They Were Retaken.

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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: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.

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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

40,584 days ago

(111 years, 69 days)