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Wednesday, August 30, 1905
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The Headlines
PEACE ARRANGED; JAPAN GIVES IN; No Indemnity; Russia Gets Half Sakhalin. EACH SIDE TO PAY OTHER Actual Expenses on Prisoners to be Refunded. BARON KOMURA IN TEARS Heartbroken Over the Mikado's Surrender -- Armistice to be Arranged -- Treaty Being Drafted.
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In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Theodor Svedberg (1884)
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
44,109 days ago
(120 years, 309 days)