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Sunday, February 14, 1904

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The Headlines

FIGHTING ON THE YALU?; St. Petersburg Learns That Six Japanese Warships Have Appeared in Tatung-Kao -- Cannon Heard.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

Kerry Mills

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1904

  • Meet me in St. Louis

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

44,672 days ago

(122 years, 142 days)