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Thursday, November 14, 1901
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The Headlines
WILD PANIC ON AN ELEVATED TRAIN; Crowded with Passengers, It Dashes Into Empty Cars. WOMEN FAINT WITH TERROR Engine Derailed Hung Over Bowery Sidewalk Just Above Chatham Square -- Crowds Greatly Delayed.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889)
- Claude Monet (1840)
- William III of England (1650)
- Frederick Banting (1891)
- Robert Fulton (1765)
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
45,494 days ago
(124 years, 234 days)