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Friday, May 26, 1905
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The Headlines
FISHER, THE GOULDS, AND MERCHANTS' TRUST; Accused Promoter Approved the Loans They Took Up. JEROME LOOKING UP CASE Man Charged with Larceny by Textile Directors Got State Insurance Company Some Loans, Too.
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 Clement VII (1478)
- Mehmed III (1566)
- Abraham de Moivre (1667)
- Dorothea Lange (1895)
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650)
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
44,205 days ago
(121 years, 40 days)