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Friday, August 13, 1915
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The Headlines
HOPES RISE AT VATICAN.; Pope's Entourage Expect Peace Proposals from Germany. CARDINALS HERE IN PEACE MOVE?
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
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871)
- John Logie Baird (1888)
- Samuel de Champlain (1567)
- Richard Willstätter (1872)
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
40,475 days ago
(110 years, 325 days)