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Monday, July 11, 1904
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The Headlines
MATTRESS TO HIDE MURDER.; Body of Unknown Italian Found in Philadelphia's Outskirts.
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
- John Quincy Adams (1767)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- James McNeill Whistler (1834)
- Carl Schmitt (1888)
- Frederick I of Prussia (1657)
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
44,524 days ago
(121 years, 359 days)