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Friday, March 4, 1904
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The Headlines
WIND CAUSES HAVOC; THREE PERSONS HURT; Crushed Under Boarding Blown from a 14th Street Building. TOWER FALLS IN WEST STREET Debris Crashes Against a Belt Line Car, but No One Is Injured -- Tree on Fire in the Bronx.
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
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769)
- Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
- George Gamow (1904)
- Georges Dumézil (1898)
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
44,654 days ago
(122 years, 124 days)