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Friday, May 12, 1905
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The Headlines
20 DEAD, 100 HURT IN DYNAMITE WRECK; Express Sleeper Sidewiped Explosive-Laden Car. FLAMES SCATTERED BROADCAST Scenes of Horror Along the Tracks at Harrisburg -- Samuel S. Shubert Among the Dangerously Injured.
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
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
- Justus von Liebig (1803)
- Gustav Vasa (1496)
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
44,219 days ago
(121 years, 54 days)