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Friday, July 28, 1905
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The Headlines
KOMURA AND PRESIDENT HAVE LONG CONFERENCE; The Japanese Envoys Pay a Visit to Sagamore Hill. AN ARMISTICE DISCUSSED? Dinner to the Plenipotentiaries Given by Kaneko Last Night -- Witte Sails for New York.
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
- Karl Popper (1902)
- Ludwig Feuerbach (1804)
- Marcel Duchamp (1887)
- Beatrix Potter (1866)
- Ernst Cassirer (1874)
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
44,142 days ago
(120 years, 342 days)