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Wednesday, January 15, 1902
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The Headlines
DEMAND NEW WAGE SCALE.; Structural Iron Workers Want Shorter Hours and More Pay.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Hughie Cannon
The must-have
Teddy Bear
You Share a Birthday With
- Molière (1622)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809)
- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850)
- Mihai Eminescu (1850)
- Nâzım Hikmet (1902)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Air Conditioner, Hearing Aids & Lie Detector (Polygraph).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,433 days ago
(124 years, 173 days)