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Friday, January 22, 1915

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The Headlines

HINT AT CONSPIRACY TO RUIN THOMPSON; Friends Say Steel and Banking Interests Seek Control of His Coking Coal Lands. SHUT DOWN ON HIS CREDITS He Had Refused to Sell on Their Terms, Holding Out for Much Higher Prices. HINT AT CONSPIRACY TO RUIN THOMPSON

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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

On This Day

  • Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.

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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

40,677 days ago

(111 years, 162 days)