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Wednesday, July 10, 1901
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The Headlines
RUSHING WORK ON THE CENSUS; Director Merriam Trying for a Record -- Says Everything Will Be Completed by July 1, 1902.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Nikola Tesla (1856)
- Marcel Proust (1871)
- John Calvin (1509)
- Camille Pissarro (1830)
- Giorgio de Chirico (1888)
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
45,621 days ago
(124 years, 361 days)