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Thursday, May 19, 1904
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The Headlines
NATIONAL BANKERS ARE OFF ELECTORAL TICKET; Woodward, Whitney, and Straus Resign Their Places. CAUSE, DOUBTFUL ELIGIBILITY Legal Committee Advises That Financiers Named Come Within Spirit of Constitutional Prohibition.
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
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)
- Julius Evola (1898)
- Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744)
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
44,578 days ago
(122 years, 48 days)