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Friday, January 31, 1902
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The Headlines
RESTORING STATE FORESTS.; Work in Catskill and Adirondack Regions Shows Good Results -- Recommendations by Commission.
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
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Alva Myrdal (1902)
- Irving Langmuir (1881)
- Theodor Heuss (1884)
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
45,416 days ago
(124 years, 156 days)