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Wednesday, September 1, 1915

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The Headlines

FIND F-4 DEAD AMONG DEBRIS; Only One Body, a Gunner's Mate, Thus Far Identified ;- Many in Fragments. GRAVE OF A CREW OF 22 Submarine Lost on March 25 in Honolulu Harbor ;- Great Holes in Her Now. ALL F-BOATS DEFECTIVE Preliminary Board of Inquiry So Report ;- Water Seeps in and Generates Deadly Gas.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier

Al Piantadosi

The must-have

Raggedy Ann Doll

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1915

  • I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

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

40,456 days ago

(110 years, 306 days)