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On the date
Saturday, August 6, 1904
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The Headlines
NEW YORKER'S GOLD MINE.; Frank M. Stone Gets Control of Great Ore-Bearing Ledge in Alaska.
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
- Alexander Fleming (1881)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
- Paul Claudel (1868)
- Johann Bernoulli (1667)
- François Fénelon (1651)
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
44,499 days ago
(121 years, 334 days)