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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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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
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The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- John Wayne (1907)
- Pope Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- János Kádár (1912)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667)
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
40,554 days ago
(111 years, 39 days)