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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
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743)
- Billy the Kid (1859)
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
40,440 days ago
(110 years, 290 days)