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On the date
Friday, July 18, 1902
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The Headlines
FOUND $40,118; GOT 10 CENTS.; Man Was Thus Munificently Rewarded by a Chicago Woman.
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
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552)
- Vidkun Quisling (1887)
- Vasil Levski (1837)
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
45,249 days ago
(123 years, 354 days)