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Sunday, February 21, 1904
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The Headlines
RUSSIA'S TROOPS IN EAST NUMBER 125,000; Czar's Generals Unprepared to Rush Reinforcements. PROBABLE CAMPAIGN PLAN Refugees Leaving Port Arthur -- Japanese Fleet Controls the Gulf -Repairs to Russian Ships.
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
- Anaïs Nin (1903)
- Peter III of Russia (1728)
- Jeanne Calment (1875)
- Sacha Guitry (1885)
- John Henry Newman (1801)
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
44,665 days ago
(122 years, 135 days)