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Tuesday, February 5, 1901
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The Headlines
BREAKS VOW OF CELIBACY.; President of a Massachusetts Bachelors' Club Will Take a Wife.
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Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
J. P. Morgan incorporates U.S. Steel in the state of New Jersey, although the company would not start doing business until February 25 and the assets of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company, Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore's National Steel Company were not acquired until April 1.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848)
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626)
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804)
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
45,776 days ago
(125 years, 151 days)