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Friday, February 5, 1904
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The Headlines
FORGOT HUSBAND IN WILL.; Mrs. Moore Left $15,000 to Tuskegee and Other Institutions.
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
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848)
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626)
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804)
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
44,681 days ago
(122 years, 151 days)