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Saturday, May 13, 1905
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The Headlines
JUDGE WAS KIDNAPPED, CROWD LYNCHED NEGRO; Missouri Desperado Tracked by Dogs and Posse. WIFE HELD FOR RANSOM Husband After Being Made at Pistol Point to Drive to Lonely Hut, Sent Back for $600.
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
- Pope Pius IX (1792)
- Alphonse Daudet (1840)
- Maria Theresa (1717)
- Ronald Ross (1857)
- Georges Braque (1882)
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
44,218 days ago
(121 years, 53 days)