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Tuesday, August 9, 1904
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The Headlines
NO GIRL TO NAME GUNBOAT.; Dubuque in Queer Plight -- Honor Probably for New York.
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
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- P. L. Travers (1899)
- Thomas Telford (1757)
- Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1847)
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
44,495 days ago
(121 years, 330 days)