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Sunday, September 24, 1905
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The Headlines
RICKETTS WARNS USURERS.; Orders Money-Lending Practice in Public Printing Office Stopped.
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
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
- İsmet İnönü (1884)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1501)
- Horace Walpole (1717)
- Howard Florey (1898)
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
44,084 days ago
(120 years, 284 days)