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Friday, September 16, 1904
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The Headlines
MRS. STOKES TO THE RESCUE.; Hot Coffee and Dry Clothes to Beached Freighter's Crew.
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
- Henry V of England (1386)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888)
- Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (1745)
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
44,457 days ago
(121 years, 292 days)