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Friday, August 22, 1902
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The Headlines
MIDSHIPMEN RETURN HOME.; Their Summer Cruise on the Indiana at an End.
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
On This Day
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
Wikipedia →The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Wikipedia →At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
- Max Scheler (1874)
- Dorothy Parker (1893)
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
45,213 days ago
(123 years, 318 days)