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Tuesday, July 27, 1915

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The Headlines

SHERIFF CAPTURES POLICE FOR STRIKE; Invades Jersey City and Swears In Surprised Officials as Bayonne Deputies. PUTS CHIEF UNDER ARREST All This After Punching Strike Leader and Proving Him an Impostor. 1,500 TO GO BACK TO WORK Oil Plants' Strikers Make Kinkead Their Chief and He Predicts Ending of the Trouble. SHERIFF CAPTURES POLICE FOR STRIKE

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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

40,491 days ago

(110 years, 341 days)