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Wednesday, October 15, 1902
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The Headlines
SKYSCRAPER FOR "MILLIONAIRE'S ROW."; Syndicate Plans a Sixteen-Story Apartment Hotel on Fifth Avenue -- Adjoining Frank J. Gould's Mansion.
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
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Evangelista Torricelli (1608)
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881)
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
45,159 days ago
(123 years, 264 days)