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Tuesday, August 6, 1901
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The Headlines
ATTACH O.M. CARTER'S STOCK.; The Government Seeks to Recover Property Bought with Money the ex-Captain Embezzled.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Fleming (1881)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
- Paul Claudel (1868)
- Johann Bernoulli (1667)
- François Fénelon (1651)
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
45,594 days ago
(124 years, 334 days)