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Wednesday, June 22, 1904
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The Headlines
SLOCUM'S INSPECTOR REFUSES TO TESTIFY; Might Incriminate Himself -- 121 More Bodies Found. DEATH TOTAL IS NOW 911. Commission, Including an Army and a Navy Expert, Appointed at Washington to Probe the Horror. SLOCUM'S INSPECTOR REFUSES TO TESTIFY
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
- AD 1000 (1000)
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898)
- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805)
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767)
- Hermann Minkowski (1864)
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
44,543 days ago
(122 years, 13 days)