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Friday, June 20, 1902
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The Headlines
A $5,000,000 Cutlery Plant.
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
- Jacques Offenbach (1819)
- Sigismund III Vasa (1566)
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861)
- Kurt Schwitters (1887)
- Jean Moulin (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
45,276 days ago
(124 years, 16 days)