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Sunday, July 31, 1904
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The Headlines
LOU DILLON BREAKS DOWN.; Champion Trotter Reported Dying as Result of Overwork.
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)
On This Day
Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Premchand (1880)
- Friedrich Wöhler (1800)
- Jean Dubuffet (1901)
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527)
- Philip the Good (1396)
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
44,504 days ago
(121 years, 339 days)