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Saturday, August 21, 1915

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The Headlines

LANSING CABLES FOR FACTS; Orders Envoy and Consul to Get Full Affidavits on Arabic Sinking. TENSE FEELING AT CAPITAL President Confers with Secretary of State at Night, but Both Are Silent. HINTS OF DIPLOMATIC BREAK Recall of Gerard and Summoning of Congress Among Rumors at Capital. LANSING CABLES FOR ARABIC FACTS

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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

40,467 days ago

(110 years, 317 days)