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Wednesday, May 26, 1915

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The Headlines

INVADE ON 66-MILE FRONT; Italian Forces in Three Lines Sweep Four Miles Across the Frontier. TAKE FIRST RANGE OF HILLS Several Hundred Austrians Are Captured in Tonale Pass, on Tyrol Border. NAVAL FIGHT AT BARLETTA Italian Destroyer Sunk by Shell in Attack by Cruiser and Misquito Craft. COAST RAID DAMAGE HEAVY Vienna Reports Austrian Warships Wrecked Much Property -- Two of Them Hit.

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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

40,554 days ago

(111 years, 39 days)