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Wednesday, February 22, 1905
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The Headlines
Front Page 5 -- No Title; $1,000 FOR A POE POEM. Price Paid for Original of "Ulalume" at the McKee Sale.
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
- George Washington (1732)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)
- Heinrich Hertz (1857)
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857)
- Luis Buñuel (1900)
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
44,299 days ago
(121 years, 134 days)