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Thursday, August 19, 1915

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The Headlines

100 DEAD, BIG LOSS IN TEXAS STORM; Galveston, with Damage Put at $15,000,000, Under Martial Law ;- 14 Killed There. ARMY CAMP SWEPT AWAY Ten Soldiers Dead at Texas City ;- Houston and Many Coast Towns Suffer Heavy Damage. OVER 100 DEAD IN TEXAS STORM

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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

40,469 days ago

(110 years, 319 days)