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Wednesday, April 28, 1915

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The Headlines

ALLIES AT YPRES TAKE OFFENSIVE; British, French, and Belgians Attack New German Lines to Recover Lost Ground. HET-SASE AND LIZERNE WON British Tell of Gain Near St. Julien, but Berlin Says They Were Repulsed with Loss. MEUSE FIGHTING GOES ON And Paris Reports the Recapture of the Summit of Hartmanns-Weilerkopf ALLIES AT YPRES TAKE OFFENSIVE

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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

40,582 days ago

(111 years, 67 days)