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Sunday, November 21, 1915

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The Headlines

JAMES SMITH, JR., FAILS IN BUSINESS; New Jersey's ex-Senator Has Liabilities of $1,750,000 and Assets of $2,000,000. TRUSTEES TO TAKE CHARGE Action Due to Reverses of His Firm, J.H. Halsey & Smith, a Newark Leather House. QUITS AS BANK PRESIDENT Controller Williams Forces the Political Foe of President Wilson to Make an Assignment. JAMES SMITH JR., FAILS IN BUSINESS

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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

40,375 days ago

(110 years, 225 days)