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Thursday, February 9, 1905
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The Headlines
SUES MISSING MINISTER.; Action in Newark Reveals Indebtedness of Rev. F.E.C. Haas.
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
- William Henry Harrison (1773)
- Thomas Paine (1737)
- Abdulaziz (1830)
- Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441)
- Pope Honorius II (1060)
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
44,312 days ago
(121 years, 147 days)