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On the date
Saturday, May 11, 1901
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The Headlines
HILL'S FRIEND SOLD STOCK.; Greed of One Stockholder, It Is Said, Brought on Fight for Control of Northern Pacific.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Irving Berlin (1888)
- Martha Graham (1894)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752)
- Theodore von Kármán (1881)
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
45,682 days ago
(125 years, 57 days)