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Tuesday, May 7, 1901
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The Headlines
AMERICA DESIRES TO OPEN CHINA TO TRADE; Wants All Cities to be Markets for Foreign Goods. INCREASED CUSTOMS DUTIES British-American Protest Likely to be Ineffective -- Little Foundation for New Manchuria Report.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
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Abe Holzmann
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You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
45,686 days ago
(125 years, 61 days)