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Monday, December 5, 1904
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The Headlines
PYGMIES COST FRANCIS $8.35.; President of the Fair Bought Gifts for Nine with That Sum.
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
- Walt Disney (1901)
- Martin Van Buren (1782)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901)
- Józef Piłsudski (1867)
- Pope Julius II (1443)
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
44,378 days ago
(121 years, 213 days)