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Saturday, May 10, 1902

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The Headlines

MARTINIQUE DEAD MAY NUMBER 40,000; Efforts to Penetrate Into St. Pierre Fail. WARSHIP SAVES 30 LIVES So Far as Is Known These Are the Only Survivors. GOVERNOR PROBABLY A VICTIM The Killed Also Believed to Include United States Consul Prentis and His Family -- Districts Within a Four-Mile Radius of St. Pierre Overwhelmed.

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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

45,317 days ago

(124 years, 57 days)