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Sunday, December 22, 1901
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The Headlines
ON 'CHANGE IN LONDON; Another Spurt in American Rails Deemed Likely. The Continent Buying Consols and South Africans -- England Watching Chile and Argentina -- The London and Globe Finance Corporation Again. ON 'CHANGE IN LONDON
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Guru Gobind Singh (1666)
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
45,456 days ago
(124 years, 196 days)