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Friday, March 11, 1904
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The Headlines
INDIANOLA HITS BACK.; Peddlers of Photographs of Roosevelt and Booker Washington Arrested.
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
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Urbain Le Verrier (1811)
- Frederik IX (1899)
- Vannevar Bush (1890)
- Marius Petipa (1818)
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
44,647 days ago
(122 years, 117 days)