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Monday, May 24, 1915
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The Headlines
SUBMARINE ATTACKS BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP; Torpedo Fired at the Comeric Passed Thirty Yards from the Vessel.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Al Piantadosi
The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686)
- William Gilbert (physicist) (1544)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
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
40,555 days ago
(111 years, 40 days)