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Saturday, August 28, 1915
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The Headlines
GULLY WAS FILLED WITH DEAD TURKS; Ottoman Warriors on Hill Threw Over Bodies Till They Choked Little Valley.
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
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- George Whipple (1878)
- Andrei Platonov (1899)
- Tjalling Koopmans (1910)
- Charles Boyer (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
40,460 days ago
(110 years, 310 days)