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Thursday, October 28, 1915

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The Headlines

FAY'S NEW TALE OF GERMAN PLOT; Says He was Sent Here by Secret Service to Blow Up Ships. PICKED FROM ARMY FOR JOB Sent to Chief to Get Instructions and Read Letter from Dr. Kienzle. WELCOMED BY AGENTS HERE Breitung Returns and Gives $25,000 Bail ;- Explosives Taken to Governors Island. FAY'S NEW TALE OF GERMAN PLOT

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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

40,399 days ago

(110 years, 249 days)