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Wednesday, August 28, 1901
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The Headlines
EAST HELENA LABOR TROUBLE.; Workmen in Montana Town May Form a Union.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- George Whipple (1878)
- Andrei Platonov (1899)
- Charles Boyer (1899)
- Edward Burne-Jones (1833)
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
45,572 days ago
(124 years, 312 days)