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Saturday, October 4, 1902
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The Headlines
FISKE'S LAST BOOK.; His "Unrevised and Incomplete" New France and New England.*
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
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1822)
- Buster Keaton (1895)
- Jean-François Millet (1814)
- Louis X of France (1289)
- Engelbert Dollfuss (1892)
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
45,171 days ago
(123 years, 276 days)