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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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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

40,514 days ago

(110 years, 364 days)