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On the date
Saturday, May 24, 1902
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The Headlines
SEVERAL THOUSAND KILLED.; Advices of the Guatemalan Legation About Quezaltenango.
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
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686)
- William Gilbert (physicist) (1544)
- Suzanne Lenglen (1899)
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
45,303 days ago
(124 years, 43 days)