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Thursday, January 12, 1905
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The Headlines
A. HART M'KEE WEDS WIDOW OF HUGH TEVIS; Ceremony Performed Yesterday Morning in Philadelphia. BRIDEGROOM JUST DIVORCED Decree Was Granted His First Wife Monday -- His Name Connected with the Phipps Trouble.
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In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
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
44,339 days ago
(121 years, 174 days)