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Sunday, February 9, 1902
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The Headlines
SIX FIREMEN HURT IN BIG BROOKLYN FIRE; Three Have Fractured Skulls, and It Is Feared Will Die. WIRE SHOCKS CAPT. OSWALD Eighteen Horses Perish in Shadbolt's Truck Factory Building -- Tenement House Crushed by Falling Wall.
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Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Hughie Cannon
The must-have
Teddy Bear
You Share a Birthday With
- William Henry Harrison (1773)
- Thomas Paine (1737)
- Abdulaziz (1830)
- Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441)
- Pope Honorius II (1060)
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
45,407 days ago
(124 years, 147 days)