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Friday, October 21, 1904
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The Headlines
GRAFT FROM RED CROSS FOR RUSSIAN OFFICIALS; Funds Subscribed for Sick and Wounded Soldiers Stolen. PATRIOTS MUST PAY BRIBES Nobles Who Provided an Ambulance Could Not Send It Out Until an Official Was "Seen."
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Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Kerry Mills
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Hongwu Emperor (1328)
- Edogawa Ranpo (1894)
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
44,423 days ago
(121 years, 258 days)