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Wednesday, September 20, 1905
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The Headlines
ROBBED ADMIRAL BOWLES.; Thieves Kept Jewelry, but Returned Valuable Papers by Mail.
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
- Upton Sinclair (1878)
- Chulalongkorn (1853)
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833)
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778)
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758)
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
44,088 days ago
(120 years, 288 days)