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Tuesday, November 21, 1905

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The Headlines

DENTIST'S BILL $1,000 FOR TREATING PRINCE; It Comes to $83 an Hour, or $250 a Tooth. PAID WITHOUT A QUIBBLE When Told That Bill Was Exorbitant, Prince Louis Referred It to Sir Percy Sanderson.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

On This Day

  • Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1905

  • E=mc2

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

44,026 days ago

(120 years, 226 days)