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Sunday, April 30, 1905

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The Headlines

TWELVE LABOR HEADS INDICTED IN CHICAGO; Six Counts for Conspiracy and Disorder in the Strike. THREE SHOT IN DAY'S RIOTS Unions May Appeal to Roosevelt -- Employers Plan Lock-Out -- Water and Lighting Menaced.

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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

  • Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.

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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

44,232 days ago

(121 years, 67 days)