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Saturday, May 3, 1902
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The Headlines
JOHN J. SCANNELL'S PURCHASE.; Bids In the Springdale Driving Park of Two Hundred Acres While on His Way to Saratoga.
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
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- Golda Meir (1898)
- George Paget Thomson (1892)
- Alfred Kastler (1902)
- Charles XV (1826)
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
45,324 days ago
(124 years, 64 days)