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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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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

  • In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.

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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

44,316 days ago

(121 years, 151 days)