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Saturday, January 30, 1904
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The Headlines
PERSIA'S GREAT MAN HERE; Ali Askar Is "the Mark Hanna of the Shah's Domains." Tells Reporters Through Interpreter He Expects War in Far East, and Adds in English, "Be Good."
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Kerry Mills
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Adelbert von Chamisso (1781)
- Max Theiler (1899)
- Félix Faure (1841)
- A. H. Tammsaare (1878)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Offset Printing Press, Vacuum Diode Tube & Teabags.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
44,687 days ago
(122 years, 157 days)