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Friday, June 9, 1905
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The Headlines
WOULDN'T BE CONGRESSMAN.; Lieut. Gov. Sherman Has Too Much Contempt for Washington.
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
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Bertha von Suttner (1843)
- George Stephenson (1781)
- Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640)
- Johann Gottfried Galle (1812)
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
44,192 days ago
(121 years, 27 days)