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Saturday, August 14, 1915
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The Headlines
KOVNO POUNDED BIT BY BIT; Germans Try Antwerp Plan and Concentrate Fire on Single Spot. BUELOW'S DEFEAT SERIOUS Armies Driving at Dvinsk Divided, and One Said to be in Peril of Capture. VIENNA HOPES FOR BIG HAUL Says Czar's Warsaw Armies Are Being Pushed Together, Making Escape Difficult.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
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Raggedy Ann Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
- Frederick William I of Prussia (1688)
- Guangxu Emperor (1871)
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
40,474 days ago
(110 years, 324 days)