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Monday, April 3, 1905

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The Headlines

POSTAL INSPECTOR GOT LOAN FROM STOREY CO.; G.C. Holden Admits He Borrowed $1,100 in 1902. HAS OFFERED RESIGNATION Belief That the Investigation Will Involve Relative of Former High Post Office Official.

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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

  • Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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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

44,259 days ago

(121 years, 94 days)