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Wednesday, September 10, 1902
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The Headlines
JOHN C. SHEEHAN HERE TO FIGHT DEVERY'S HOST; Ex-Chief Will Not Get Five Hundred Votes, He Declares. UNION WITH CARROLL DENIED Reliance Upon Police Protection and the District Attorney for a Fair Struggle in the Ninth, Whose People Mr. Sheehan Defends.
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Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Hughie Cannon
The must-have
Teddy Bear
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839)
- Georges Bataille (1897)
- Henry Purcell (1659)
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
45,194 days ago
(123 years, 299 days)