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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
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
40,467 days ago
(110 years, 317 days)