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On the date

Saturday, November 25, 1905

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Tactile

The rough wool of my tweed blazer chafes against my neck as I watch the neighborhood men congregate, their heavy leather soles crunching on the frost-dusted cobblestones. They speak in hushed, urgent tones about Lawson’s grip on the insurance proxies, oblivious that these financial maneuvers are merely the crude blueprints for the century of corporate dominance to follow. I turn my attention to the parlor floor, where a young boy runs his fingers over the stiff, hand-painted oilcloth of *The Landlord's Game*. He is a total chump for buying up the luxury squares, failing to see how this simple cardboard pastime is formalizing the very greed that will eventually reshape the global skyline.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

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

44,022 days ago

(120 years, 222 days)