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Thursday, March 13, 1902
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The Headlines
JOHN D. GRIMINS'S RARE BOOKS STOLEN; Autograph Letters of Great Value Among Missing Treasures. Mr. Crimmins's Second Secretary, Ed- ward Kearney, Now Under Arrest, Confesses and Tells Where He Sold Some Bibelots.
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
- Giorgos Seferis (1900)
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)
- Pope Innocent XII (1615)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781)
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
45,375 days ago
(124 years, 115 days)