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Saturday, May 27, 1905
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The Headlines
OPERATION ON MRS. PHIPPS.; Patient Said to be Doing Well at a Long Island Hospital.
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
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ibn Khaldun (1332)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894)
- John Cockcroft (1897)
- Dashiell Hammett (1894)
- Max Brod (1884)
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)