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Wednesday, December 25, 1901
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The Headlines
THE TROUBLE AT KOWEIT.; Russia Said to Have No Intention of Pursuing an Aggressive Policy in the Persian Gulf.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
You Share a Birthday With
- Isaac Newton (1642)
- Humphrey Bogart (1899)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876)
- Pope Pius VI (1717)
- Adolf Windaus (1876)
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
45,453 days ago
(124 years, 193 days)