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Thursday, August 3, 1905
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The Headlines
WITTE ARRIVES; EAGER FOR PEACE; In Intimate Conversations Gave Strong Impression of Hope BUT CONFESSES TO MISGIVINGS Russian Envoy Denies That He Said, Without Qualification, Conference Wouldn't Last a Week.
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
- Habib Bourguiba (1903)
- Stanley Baldwin (1867)
- Haakon VII (1872)
- Frederick William III of Prussia (1770)
- Alfred Deakin (1856)
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
44,137 days ago
(120 years, 337 days)