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On the date
Monday, September 1, 1902
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The Headlines
BRAKE FAILS; CARS CRASH AT CROSSING; Many Persons Injured in Collision of Crowded Trolleys. Panic Follows Accident at One Hundred and Sixteenth Street and Madison Avenue -- Motorman's Nar- row Escape.
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
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)
- Francis William Aston (1877)
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653)
- Aleksei Brusilov (1853)
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
45,203 days ago
(123 years, 308 days)