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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
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
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
40,469 days ago
(110 years, 319 days)