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Wednesday, June 21, 1905
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The Headlines
LINEVITCH WANTS TO FIGHT.; Again Begs for a Chance, and Says Victory Is Almost at Hand. JAPANESE MOVE ON VLADIVOSTOK
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
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
- Pope Leo IX (1002)
- Machado de Assis (1839)
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781)
- Daniel D. Tompkins (1774)
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
44,179 days ago
(121 years, 14 days)