Cohan's "The Yankee Doodle Boy" is from 1904. "Mary's a Grand Old Name" is 1905. Both would fit, I think.
Other possibles: When You Were Sweet Sixteen, 1898
A Bird in a Gilded Cage, 1900
In the Good Old Summertime, 1902
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis, 1904
In My Merry Oldsmobile, 1905
Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie, 1905
Harrigan, 1907
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?, 1909
Let Me Call You Sweetheart, 1910
Macushla, 1910
Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1911
I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad), 1911
When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose), 1914
Oh, Johnny! Oh, Johnny!, 1917
For Me and My Gal, 1917 Last, but not least, perhaps the most popular song of the era (at least in the soldier context), but at the end of the war:
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