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Sunday, February 5, 1905
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The Headlines
FORGERY SCANDAL OVER CHICAGO'S BIG TUNNEL; Head of $50,000,000 Company and Officials Indicted. SAY RECORDS WERE CHANGED Enterprise for Conduits Resolved Itself Into a Tunnel, with Many Miles of Tracks for Freight Cars.
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On This Day
In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848)
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626)
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804)
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
44,316 days ago
(121 years, 151 days)