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Thursday, August 28, 1902
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The Headlines
HOTEL SEIZED FOR DEBT; PATRONS THE SUFFERERS.; Valuables Held in Safe of Coleman House, Atlantic City -- Meals Suddenly Cease.
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
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- George Whipple (1878)
- Andrei Platonov (1899)
- Charles Boyer (1899)
- Edward Burne-Jones (1833)
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
45,207 days ago
(123 years, 312 days)