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Friday, January 6, 1905
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The Headlines
CHICAGO TROLLEY DEAL.; Marshall Field and Valentine to Confer with J.P. Morgan.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Joan of Arc (1412)
- Kahlil Gibran (1883)
- Carl Sandburg (1878)
- Gustave Doré (1832)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
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
44,345 days ago
(121 years, 180 days)