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Saturday, October 8, 1904
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The Headlines
TOO FAST FOR VANDERBILT.; William K., Thrown Out of Berth, Orders Train Slowed Down.
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
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
- Zog I (1895)
- Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850)
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
44,436 days ago
(121 years, 271 days)