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Saturday, October 16, 1915
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The Headlines
DE FOREST TO AID AGAINST ZEPPELINS; Will Place His Electric Detector at the Service of the Allies. A MICROPHONE DEVICE It Is Expected to Record Airship Propellers' Vibrations and Disclose Their Location.
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
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
- Itō Hirobumi (1841)
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
40,410 days ago
(110 years, 260 days)