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Wednesday, August 13, 1902
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The Headlines
RIVAL TO GROCERY TRUST.; It Was Incorporated at Dover Yesterday with a Capital of $1,500,000.
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
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871)
- John Logie Baird (1888)
- Samuel de Champlain (1567)
- Richard Willstätter (1872)
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
45,222 days ago
(123 years, 327 days)