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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.
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
Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
- Mary II (1662)
- Simon Kuznets (1901)
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
44,232 days ago
(121 years, 67 days)