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Friday, December 12, 1902
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The Headlines
TRIED TO CRIPPLE WARSHIPS ?; Charge Against Labor Unionists Made by a Shipbuilding Company Official.
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
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Edward G. Robinson (1893)
- Karl Bryullov (1799)
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
45,101 days ago
(123 years, 206 days)