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Saturday, August 24, 1901
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The Headlines
WAR DECREE IN COLOMBIA; Payment of All Accounts for War Material Suspended. FORCED LOANS TO BE LEVIED Supplies for the Army to be Seized -- Measures Declared Necessary Because of Foreigners' Action.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
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
45,576 days ago
(124 years, 316 days)