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Sunday, May 26, 1901
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The Headlines
TILLMAN AND M'LAURIN RESIGN FROM THE SENATE; Both South Carolina Senators Will Appeal to the People. PRIMARY ELECTION TO DECIDE Action Is the Outcome of a Warm Joint Debate in Which Charges and Countercharges Were Made.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667)
- Dorothea Lange (1895)
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650)
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
45,666 days ago
(125 years, 41 days)