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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
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
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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You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
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
40,677 days ago
(111 years, 162 days)