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Thursday, January 26, 1905
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The Headlines
MOSCOW MOB DISPERSED.; Strike Spreading, and It Is Believed It Will Become General.
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)
On This Day
The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan, which weighs 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas MacArthur (1880)
- Charles XIV John (1763)
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715)
- Achim von Arnim (1781)
- Seán MacBride (1904)
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
44,326 days ago
(121 years, 161 days)