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Tuesday, October 12, 1915
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The Headlines
BRITAIN TELLS WHY MEAT WAS SEIZED; $15,000,000 Cargoes Actually Destined for Teuton Armies, New Note Asserts. SECRET PAPERS AS PROOFS Cablegrams and Letters from Packers Said to Have Left No Doubt at Trial. BRITAIN TELLS WHY MEAT WAS SEIZED
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I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
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On This Day
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Eugenio Montale (1896)
- Edward VI (1537)
- Pedro I of Brazil (1798)
- Ramsay MacDonald (1866)
- Aleister Crowley (1875)
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
40,414 days ago
(110 years, 264 days)