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Friday, February 15, 1901
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The Headlines
DIAMOND ROBBERY ON A TRAIN.; Valuables Worth $3,000 Taken While Their Owner Slept.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Louis XV (1710)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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
45,766 days ago
(125 years, 141 days)