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Monday, March 7, 1904

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The Headlines

THEATRICAL MANAGER DIES FROM POISON; Leon Melles Had Been Robbed Before Getting Home. POLICE WATCHING A WOMAN Coroner Scholer to Hold an Autopsy -- Dead Man Had Conducted Vaudeville Troupe Tours.

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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

44,650 days ago

(122 years, 120 days)