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Sunday, June 20, 1915
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The Headlines
FRENCH STORM SOUCHEZ RAVINE; They Carry by Assault the Fond de Buval, Hotly Contested for Six Weeks. OTHER GAINS NEAR ARRAS Germans Evacuate Metzeral, in Alsace -- British Win Trenches East of Ypres. FRENCH STORM SOUCHEZ RAVINE
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
- Jacques Offenbach (1819)
- Errol Flynn (1909)
- Sigismund III Vasa (1566)
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861)
- Kurt Schwitters (1887)
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
40,528 days ago
(111 years, 13 days)