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Monday, January 30, 1905
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The Headlines
WANTED -- J.D. ROCKEFELLER.; Chicago Man, Under Indictment, Advertises -- Desires Oil Man a Witness.
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
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Adelbert von Chamisso (1781)
- Max Theiler (1899)
- Félix Faure (1841)
- A. H. Tammsaare (1878)
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
44,321 days ago
(121 years, 156 days)