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Monday, April 5, 1915
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The Headlines
PATERSON IS COOL TO BILLY SUNDAY; Evangelist, However, Says He Saw "Vim, Vigor, Tobasco Sauce, and Pepperino." USES SLANG AND EPIGRAM Darts To and Fro on the Platform, Threshing with Arms, and Jumps on Pulpit. SHADOW-BOXES WITH DEVIL Says Many Are "False Alarms" and Need to be "Sterilized with Lysol and Carbolic Acid." PATERSON IS COOL TO BILLY SUNDAY
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
- Thomas Hobbes (1588)
- Bette Davis (1908)
- Pope Urban VIII (1568)
- Spencer Tracy (1900)
- Joseph Lister (1827)
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
40,604 days ago
(111 years, 89 days)