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Thursday, October 26, 1905
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The Headlines
COAST TO CHICAGO, 55 HOURS.; Harriman Special, with Miss Roosevelt Aboard, Nearing New York.
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)
On This Day
King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Georges Danton (1759)
- Napoleon Hill (1883)
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685)
- Andrei Bely (1880)
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
44,052 days ago
(120 years, 252 days)