Saturday, July 24, 1915

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The Headlines

WILSON LOOKS TO DEFENSES; Calls for Full Reports on the Condition of the Army and Navy. GETS ADVICE OF EXPERTS Intends That the Nation Shall Profit by Europe's Experiences in Modern Warfare. WANTS INVINCIBLE NAVY Already Developing New Army Program to be Submitted to Next Congress. FAVORS MILITARY TRAINING Would Provide a Citizen Soldiery in Every Way Consistent with Our Traditions. PRESIDENT LOOKS TO OUR DEFENSES

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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

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On This Day

• The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Simón Bolívar (1783)
• Alexandre Dumas (1802)
• Amelia Earhart (1897)
• Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
• Robert Graves (1895)

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Tech Check

Pyrex Glass, Transcontinental Telephone Call & Sonar (Active).

Cost of Living (1910)