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Wednesday, June 29, 1904
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The Headlines
STRADIVARIUS BRINGS $3,500.; Once Owned by a Street Musician, Who Paid $6 for It.
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
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798)
- Murad I (1326)
- Robert Schuman (1886)
- Frédéric Bastiat (1801)
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
44,536 days ago
(122 years, 6 days)