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On the date

Thursday, March 6, 1902

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Sight

I lean against the brick facade, watching the low sun catch the sharp silhouettes of wool frock coats and the occasional newsboy’s flat cap. The headlines are already whispering of Mr. Clark’s presidential ambitions, though to the average passerby, the man is just another name in the black ink of a morning sheet. A driver curses as he fumbles for his purse, grumbling that only a chump would pay **$0.10** for a single gallon of gas just to keep a motor carriage rumbling. I look past the soot and the horses, seeing the first flicker of an electric future beginning to rewrite the skyline.

Memories from that day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

Hughie Cannon

The must-have

Teddy Bear

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1902

  • Teddy Bear

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

45,382 days ago

(124 years, 122 days)