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Wednesday, August 4, 1915
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The Headlines
MEXICO CONCERT PLANNED IN JUNE; Six American Republics Informed a Month Ago of President's Purposes. PROGRAM ARRANGED THEN And Accepted in Principle by the Other Nations -- Details Not Revealed. MEXICO CITY WIRES CUT Bandits on Border Kill American Troopers and Wound Two Others -- Filibusters Caught. MEXICO CONCERT PLANNED IN JUNE
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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
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Raggedy Ann Doll
On This Day
World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
40,483 days ago
(110 years, 333 days)