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On the date

Friday, August 5, 1904

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The morning sun glints off the fresh ink of the shipping news, the crisp lines of the **offset printing press** revealing every mast and hull expected in the harbor. I adjust my lens to capture a dapper fellow in a linen suit who looks **fit as a fiddle** despite the sweltering humid air. Nearby, a vendor hawks the newest **teabags** to a crowd of silk-hatted patrons while a shop window hums with the soft, glowing warmth of a **vacuum diode tube**. The city is a blur of high-collared silhouettes and the sharp smell of coal dust, vibrating with the frantic energy of a world reinventing itself.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis

Kerry Mills

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1904

  • Meet me in St. Louis

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

44,500 days ago

(121 years, 335 days)