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Sunday, November 19, 1905
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The Headlines
RUSSIAN STRIKES END; WITTE FINDS SUPPORT; St. Petersburg Workmen's Council Claims a Victory. PROMINENT MEN COMBINING They Now Realize That They Must Support the Premier if Anarchy Is to be Averted.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
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Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- James A. Garfield (1831)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
- Charles I of England (1600)
- José Raúl Capablanca (1888)
- Mikhail Kalinin (1875)
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
44,028 days ago
(120 years, 228 days)