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Sunday, July 4, 1915
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The Headlines
SET AN INTERNAL MACHINE; Waited Until He Heard Explosion, Then Rushed Off "To Kill Morgan." CRIME CAREFULLY PLANNED Smuggled Bomb Into Senate Reception Room at 4 o'Clock -- It Went Off at 11:23. MAILED LETTERS THAT NIGHT Explosion a Protest Against Shipments of War Munitions, He Told Newspapers. DISCUSSES DEED CALMLY Studied Sulphuric Acid and Knew It Would Eat Out Cork and Explode Dynamite. HOLT ADMITS HE PUT BOMB IN CAPITOL
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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Al Piantadosi
The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Murad III (1546)
- Gloria Stuart (1910)
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
40,514 days ago
(110 years, 364 days)