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Tuesday, May 24, 1904
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The Headlines
TWO DROWN IN TANK OF OIL.; Workman In Texas Refinery Perished Trying to Save Comrade.
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
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686)
- William Gilbert (physicist) (1544)
- Suzanne Lenglen (1899)
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
44,573 days ago
(122 years, 43 days)