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Friday, January 1, 1915

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The Headlines

WHITMAN GOES IN AS BELLS TOLL 12; New Governor Takes Up Reins of Office at Midnight Without Waiting for Ceremonial. LEGAL POINT IS INVOLVED Courts Advise Him to Re-designate Justices Whose Terms Expired with 1914. ACCEPTS OWN RESIGNATION First Official Act Is Followed by Appointment of Charles Albert Perkins as District Attorney. WHITMAN GOES IN AS BELLS TOLL 12

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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

40,698 days ago

(111 years, 183 days)