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Sunday, June 9, 1901
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The Headlines
AGAINST CHEAP BUILDINGS.; Representative Mercer on the Needs of the Department of Justice.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Bertha von Suttner (1843)
- George Stephenson (1781)
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640)
- Johann Gottfried Galle (1812)
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
45,652 days ago
(125 years, 27 days)