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Friday, June 28, 1901
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The Headlines
STABBED ON A TRAIN.; President of Georgia Railroad Commission Badly Injured by a Pullman Conductor.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867)
- Henry VIII (1491)
- Alexis Carrel (1873)
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
45,633 days ago
(125 years, 8 days)