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Tuesday, June 14, 1904
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The Headlines
TEN-DOLLAR RATE BRINGS MYRIADS OF IMMIGRANTS; 2,500 Got Here Yesterday -- 16,000 Expected This Month. TENTS FOR ELLIS ISLAND About a Third of the $10 Immigrants Detained -- A Family of Nine Had Only 25 Cents.
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Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Kerry Mills
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
- Karl Landsteiner (1868)
- Alois Alzheimer (1864)
- Andrey Markov (1856)
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
44,551 days ago
(122 years, 21 days)