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Monday, July 22, 1901
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The Headlines
STEEL STRIKE TAKES ON A POLITICAL HUE; President Shaffer Talks of Danger to the Administration. Says It Is All Powerful and Will Be Held Responsible for Consequences of the Conflict.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
- Philip the Handsome (1478)
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
45,609 days ago
(124 years, 349 days)