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Wednesday, January 4, 1905

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The Headlines

FOES FRATERNIZE AT PORT ARTHUR; Forts Occupied by the Victorions Japanese. TEXT OF THE SURRENDER Parole for the Officers---Men to Go to Japan as Prisoners. CZAR HASTENS TO HIS CAPITAL Russian People Stunned by the Disaster and Revolutionary Demonstration Feared----Baltic Ships Reunited Off Madagascar.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1905

  • E=mc2

Tech Check

Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

44,348 days ago

(121 years, 183 days)