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On the date

Saturday, March 18, 1905

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Sight

The morning sun glints off the high, starched collars and dark wool sack suits of the gentlemen crowding the newsstand, their silhouettes sharp against the soot-stained brick. I watch a man flick a nickel for a loaf of bread, his eyes widening as he snaps open the paper to see **MISSOURI DEAD-LOCK HOLDS.; Big Jump to Warner, but Senatorship Is Not Yet Settled.** splashed across the front page. It is a bully sight to witness the political machinery grinding so publicly under the smoggy sky. Even as the first horseless carriages rattle past, the stubborn breath of the old legislative guard still hangs heavy in the air.

Memories from that day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

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

44,275 days ago

(121 years, 110 days)