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Monday, August 9, 1915
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The Headlines
365 BRITISH OFFICERS LOST IN TEN DAYS; List Made Public July 30 Brings Casualties Among Commissioned Men Up to 13,656.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Al Piantadosi
The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- Tove Jansson (1914)
- William Alfred Fowler (1911)
- P. L. Travers (1899)
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
40,478 days ago
(110 years, 328 days)