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Saturday, November 4, 1905
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The Headlines
HARPER DYING, BUT ALERT.; Outlines Football Plays on a Cardboard Chart on His Bed.
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
- Will Rogers (1879)
- Guido Reni (1575)
- Edmund Kean (1787)
- Gerard van Honthorst (1592)
- Carlos P. Garcia (1896)
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
44,044 days ago
(120 years, 244 days)