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Sunday, February 16, 1902
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The Headlines
ON LONDON 'CHANGE; Better Feeling in Regard to American Rails. Volume of Business Continues to be Small Except for the Continent and New York -- American Interests and the New Chartered Company -- Heavy Speculation in South Africans.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Francis Galton (1822)
- Radoje Domanović (1873)
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
45,401 days ago
(124 years, 141 days)