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Tuesday, December 31, 1901
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The Headlines
NORTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ENJOINED; Temporarily Restrained from Retiring the Preferred Stock. Bill of Complaint Alleges that the Absorption of the Road by the Northern Securities Company Would Be Illegal.
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
45,448 days ago
(124 years, 188 days)