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Friday, September 17, 1915

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The Headlines

HEAT KILLS SEVEN; PROSTRATES MANY; Public Schools Close All Over the Country, but Not in New York. RELIEF PERHAPS TODAY Showers for New York State Predicted, but Forecaster Does Not Think They'll Fall Here. HEAT KILLS SEVEN, PROSTRATES MANY

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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

40,440 days ago

(110 years, 290 days)