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Friday, September 5, 1902
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The Headlines
WILL KEEP OUT NEGROES.; Association of Stationary Engineers Yields to Wishes of Southern Delegates.
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
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568)
- Louis VIII of France (1187)
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
45,200 days ago
(123 years, 305 days)