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On the date
Wednesday, May 7, 1902
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The Headlines
COAL MINERS' STRIKE SEEMS INEVITABLE; Anthracite Workers to Act on Mitchell's Report To-day.
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
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
45,320 days ago
(124 years, 60 days)