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Saturday, May 28, 1904
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The Headlines
FOOTBALL HERO TO MARRY.; Arthur Poe to Wed Miss Anne Emerson King of New York on June 8.
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
- William Pitt the Younger (1759)
- Edvard Beneš (1884)
- Thomas Moore (1779)
- Louis Agassiz (1807)
- Jim Thorpe (1888)
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
44,568 days ago
(122 years, 38 days)