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Thursday, January 23, 1902
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The Headlines
MR. SCHWAB MEETS THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR.; Steel Trust President Talks Commercialism with Francis Joseph at Citizens' Ball in Vienna.
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
- David Hilbert (1862)
- Stendhal (1783)
- Édouard Manet (1832)
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897)
- Otto Diels (1876)
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
45,424 days ago
(124 years, 164 days)