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Tuesday, April 26, 1904
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The Headlines
VLADIVOSTOK SHIPS MAKE A DASH SOUTH; Squadron Reaches Gen-San and Sinks Japanese Steamer. IT MAY BE INTERCEPTED. Japanese Squadron Was Reported Ten Days Ago to be About to Sail for Vladivostok.
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
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
- AD 121 (121)
- AD 757 (757)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798)
- Rudolf Hess (1894)
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
44,600 days ago
(122 years, 70 days)