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Friday, April 14, 1905
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The Headlines
ADMITS GAS COMPANIES HAVE NO FRANCHISE; Has Expired, Vice President of New Amsterdam Says. WITNESS BALKS AT INQUIRY Asked for Books, Says He Has Never Seen Them -- Light on Phoenix Construction Company Mystery.
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
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891)
- Averroes (1126)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629)
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889)
- Philip III of Spain (1578)
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
44,247 days ago
(121 years, 82 days)