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Sunday, July 16, 1905
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The Headlines
TWO WRECKS ON THE B. & O.; St. Louis and New York Express Derailed -- Passengers Escape Injury.
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
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Trygve Lie (1896)
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796)
- Frits Zernike (1888)
- Clare of Assisi (1194)
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
44,154 days ago
(120 years, 354 days)