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Saturday, March 4, 1905
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The Headlines
INAUGURATION TRAINS CRASH; SEVEN KILLED; Two Cleveland Specials in Collision Near Pittsburg. OHIO ENGINEERS ABOARD Delegation from Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland Also in Wreck -- Score Wounded.
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
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769)
- Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
- George Gamow (1904)
- Georges Dumézil (1898)
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
44,288 days ago
(121 years, 123 days)