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Sunday, January 22, 1905

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The Headlines

AN UNFINISHEDNOVEL By the Late BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield; AN UNFINISHED NOVEL BY THE LATE BE NJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

  • Bloody Sunday occurs in Saint Petersburg, beginning the 1905 revolution.

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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

44,329 days ago

(121 years, 164 days)