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Sunday, July 25, 1915

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The Headlines

ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN REFUSE TO COMMENT; Former Says He Hopes America Will Act on the Sentiments He Expressed at Syracuse.

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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

On This Day

  • RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.

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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

40,493 days ago

(110 years, 343 days)