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Thursday, May 11, 1905
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The Headlines
LAWSON TO FETTERED KANSAS; In a 547-Word Telegram, Prepaid, He Consents to Speak.
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
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Irving Berlin (1888)
- Martha Graham (1894)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752)
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
44,221 days ago
(121 years, 56 days)