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Friday, May 3, 1901
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The Headlines
STREET LIGHTS PUT OUT.; Queens Borough Appropriation $11,000 Short -- Lighting Company's Advance In Prices.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- Golda Meir (1898)
- George Paget Thomson (1892)
- Charles XV (1826)
- Bernhard von Bülow (1849)
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
45,689 days ago
(125 years, 64 days)