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Thursday, January 31, 1901
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The Headlines
EMULATES MRS. NATION.; Boston Woman Smashes a Saloon, but Gets No Medal for It.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Irving Langmuir (1881)
- Theodor Heuss (1884)
- Theodore William Richards (1868)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Transatlantic Radio Signal, Vacuum Cleaner & Meccano.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,781 days ago
(125 years, 156 days)