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Monday, April 17, 1905
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The Headlines
SAVED HER HUSBAND'S LIFE.; Fired Thirteen Bullets Into Wildcat That Attacked Him.
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)
On This Day
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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You Share a Birthday With
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
- Pedro de Valdivia (1497)
- Taksin (1734)
- Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573)
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
44,244 days ago
(121 years, 79 days)