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Monday, July 31, 1905
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The Headlines
BOLT HITS BATHERS; 5 KILLED, 8 BURNED; Lightning Fells Thirty at Park way Baths, Coney Island. ONE IS DEAD AT ULMER PARK Two Women Thrown From Trolley in Gravesend at the Other Corner of a Deadly Triangle.
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
- Premchand (1880)
- Friedrich Wöhler (1800)
- Jean Dubuffet (1901)
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527)
- Philip the Good (1396)
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
44,140 days ago
(120 years, 340 days)