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Wednesday, April 9, 1902
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The Headlines
GOOSE KILLED BY SWAN.; Feud Long Held by Feathered Occu- pants of the Chicago Zoo.
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
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
- Léon Blum (1872)
- Erich Ludendorff (1865)
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
45,348 days ago
(124 years, 88 days)